City celebrates opening of Cleburne Golf Links GOLF BUSINESS
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LEBURNE—Welcome to the little city that could.
It started out as a tiny Civil War outpost called
Camp Henderson in the 1800s and was later named
after confederate general Pat Cleburne.
But in the past 10 years, Cleburne has all grown up
from a sleepy, agricultural town 26 miles south of Fort
Worth into a 21st century boomtown.
The population has
eclipsed the 30,000 mark and its streets are bustling with
commerce other than watermelon and turnip trucks.
You see, it was about 10 years ago that oil and gas
companies discovered that Cleburne was sitting atop one of
the nation’s largest natural gas reserves—called the Barnett
Shale.
They started leasing land from local landowners and
paying for drilling rights.
Many of Cleburne’s second and third-generation farmers and ranche
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