Hood County and Granbury Got Their Names as a Pair

One act of the Texas Legislature put two Confederate names on the map in 1866. Lawmakers created Hood County and named it for Gen. John Bell Hood. The same act ordered that the new county seat be called Granbury, for Brig. Gen. Hiram B. Granbury.

The name was settled before the seat was. Jesse and Jacob Nutt and early settler Thomas Lambert gave 40 acres between Lambert Branch and the Brazos River for the town. It took three elections to choose that riverside ground, where access to water helped carry the day.

Granbury's namesake gained a physical tie to town years later. On November 30, 1893, hundreds of people arrived on special trains for a procession from the courthouse square to College Hill Cemetery. Hiram Granbury's remains had been brought from Tennessee for reburial in the town that carried his name.