Thorp Spring

Thorp Spring is on Farm Road 4 five miles northwest of Granbury in north central Hood County. Though Pleasant Thorp settled in the area near the banks of Strouds Creek in the 1850s, Indian attacks slowed community development until the early 1870s. In 1871 Sam Milliken purchased a portion of the old Thorp homestead, built a cotton gin, and established a resort hotel, which advertised the medical benefits of the nearby waters. Two years later, brothers Randolph and Addison Clark opened Add-Ran College (later named Add-Ran Christian University when the school was taken over by the Disciples of Christ in 1890