{"nrhp_refnum":"12000352","name":"Oakdale Park","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1019 NE. Barnard St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glen Rose","county":"Somervell County","state":"TX","lat":32.24232186750007,"lon":-97.7459361120008,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-06-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Oakdale Park is a 14.56-acre campground and cottage park on the north bank of the Paluxy River in Glen Rose, Somervell County, Texas. Henry J. Cox opened it in 1925 as an auto tourist camp.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Oakdale Park is significant under Criterion A as an intact example of a 1920s auto tourist camp tied to the rise of automobile tourism and the mineral-water resort economy of Glen Rose. Its 1925 swimming pool, bathhouse, casino, camp cottages and oval circulation network survive from the original layout. It continued to evolve as a recreation park through 1967, when travel trailer sites were added.","narrative":"Oakdale Park is a 14.56-acre campground and cottage park along the Paluxy River in Glen Rose, Texas. Henry J. Cox opened it on May 1, 1925, as an auto tourist camp, on land that once held a wagon camping ground around mineral wells. Its centerpiece is Oakdale Plunge, a 310,000-gallon concrete swimming pool filled with sulfur mineral water. Around the pool, an oval road leads to camp cottages and tent sites, and surviving buildings include the frame bathhouse and a casino where orchestras played for dances. Most buildings are one-story frame structures with Craftsman features such as exposed rafter tails and brackets. Limestone and concrete picnic tables and benches also remain from the 1920s. The park reflects the growth of automobile tourism in Glen Rose, where visitors came for mineral waters and new highways. It later added travel trailer sites in 1967 and bluegrass festivals in the 1970s. The western third of the park has lost its historic integrity.","period_of_significance":"1924-1967","architect_builder":"Henry J. Cox (developer/builder); the Dempsey brothers of Glen Rose constructed most of the 1920s-1930s buildings","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century American Movements: Craftsman; No Style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still in use as a recreation park with outdoor recreation, a swimming pool, music facility, camping and tourist cottages; owned by the City of Glen Rose (public local).","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.729465-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/9733/40973369/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/12000352.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973369","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/somervell-county/oakdale-park-12000352/"}