Granbury, Texas
Granbury is a city and the county seat of Hood County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 7,978, and it is the principal city of the Granbury Micropolitan Statistical Area. Granbury is located 35 miles southwest of Fort Worth, Texas. Granbury started as a square and log cabin courthouse. Many of the buildings on the square are now registered historic landmarks, including the Granbury Opera House, which still hosts... Show more Broadway productions. The city name originated from the Confederate General Hiram B. Granberry. To explain why the city name is spelled differently, some scholars believe the name Granberry was misread on a document. Still, recent findings have concluded that Granberry chose to spell his name Granbury.A recent expansion of the city was made possible by building the Brazos River's dam in 1969, which formed Lake Granbury, a long, narrow lake that...