In 1855, after thirty families followed the Bosque River from Waco to the new townsite of Stephenville, there was a surplus of oxen that had pulled those wagons. In October, J.G. Yarbrough bought a “hundred yoke of oxen” from John and William Stephen, to take to another frontier town, Kimbell Bend, in Bosque county. To keep the oxen together, he cut down a large post oak tree from the northeast corner of the square and the oxen dragged it to Bosque County. The drag marks became the trail to Glen Rose and later was paved as the Glen Rose highway. Stephenville Tribune