Soon after Stephenville was settled, a man bought around fifty oxen used to bring the first wagons to the new community. A full grown post oak was cut from the square and the oxen were used to drag the tree to Kimbel Bend, the ruts left by this passage were followed to Glen Rose. Later this path became highway 67. The route from Brownwood to Fort Worth began as a buffalo trail, (perhaps more ancient than that) then it became a cattle trail, in the 1870s this pathway was used by the Chidister Stage Line. Later it became highway 377. In October of 1891, Stephenville’s first railway was completed following this route.