About Rainbow Village in Rainbow, Texas

Rainbow Village encompasses 5.41 acres of land adjacent to the Squaw Valley Golf Club on US Highway 67 at County Road 303. A former trailer park with a colorful history, the community is now a planned residential development that (when complete) will include multiple amenities for its residents and offer affordable housing options to residents of all surrounding communities. Purchased in 2009 by Melinda and Paul Brooke, Rainbow Village morphed from vacant land into short-term RV living, and finally into a residential community of single-family cottages for long term living.

Historical Facts

The origins of the community’s name dates back to the 1890′s. Area residents requested a post office and gathered to choose a name. During the meeting, a thunderstorm occurred, followed by a rainbow. The residents, struck with the rainbow’s beauty, named their town after it. In the 1920′s, Rainbow had a population of approximately 113. The population began to decrease after that period, reaching a low of 40 in 1960. With the opening of the nearby Dinosaur Valley State Park in the 1970′s, the population increased to it’s current range of between 76-121.