~~r~~~~~u~~u~~~~ru~~~r~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~u~~~~rr ^, ^' ~ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^' ^ ^ r Texas State .~ t~ist~rical 1~tarhers c ~~ 1Zerr C~~~t~ ~' 2c~c~S ~, -~~cc.~udivcg ,. Text a ~ Mcrh,f2e,~ .~ M Pha~a~s a ~ Mcvt.f2etus r ^ ^' r ^' ^ ^ ^ r ^'' ^ ^' ^ ^ ~ ^ w ~ r ^ ^ ~ ^ ^, M ^ r ^'', ^' ~; e~vc Cauwty H-i~s.tonica,2 Camm.i~s~s~.an ^ ', r Ke~ur.v.%?,~.e, Texws r, ^ Texas State Historical Markers in Kerr County g lZerr C~tilvltl~ ~'y The b-~-s~ H.vS~on.i.ea2 Manh,e~ weh.e p~aeed ~.n Ke~ve Caunty ~~ ~, ~.n 1936 by the S~a~e ab Texae. La~e~c, the S~a~e ^ H.i~s~ton,i.ea.~ Survey Camm-i,ttee ~aah ave~c zh.i~s ~a3fz. w' .~ S~.nee1954, ~h.i~s ne~spa-vs~.b.%~.ity ha3 been undeh the '^ ~uhi~5d~.c~on ob the Texa~S H.i~s~an,i.ca~ Camm.~s~5~,an. ;' ^' r ^ ^ ;~ Ke~ur. Cau-tity ha3 58 H-is~an.i.ca~ Mal~e~s ~.n place. Texas ~' L,~a~vs Camp has been appnaved ban a manFzeh wh.ieh w.%Q.e be placed -gin February. D~.v~de Sehaa.~ and S~tanFzey Ceme~te~cy ^ r are pending appnaval. ~ r ^ ^ ^ ~, The ba2,2aw.~.ng pages .P.i~S~s a.ee the manFzelvS ~n Ke1vc ~' Caunty, .c:nclud~.ng .the bul,~ .tent, GPS lacati.on~s and ~ pha~a~ a b a.?,e marfze~s . Thus pnaJ eel way mandated b y .the :! Texa~S H,vSxan.c.ea2 Camm.i~s~5~,an and eample~ed by the Ke~ve ~!, Caurtty H,i~s~an.i,cal Comm.i~s~5~.an.~n 2005. ~'. r w ^' ^ ~ ^ ~ Ula.~,te1e P. Sehe,P.,2hase, pre~.~dent ~.. ~ Ke1uc Couv~ty H.uSZan~.cal COmm.i~5~5tiOn ^ ^ ~ ^ ~ ^' ^ ^ ~ S^~^^^^^^^^^^^^r~^^^^^^^^^~^~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^~^^^^^~ Kerr County Historical Markers as of April 15, 2005 I. Animal Health Discovery 2. Brown Cemetery 3. Cade House 4. Camp Verde General Store and Post Office 5. Camp Verde CSA 6. One Mile to Ruins of Camp Verde 7. Site of Camp Verde 8. Center Point Cemetery 9. Center Point United Methodist Church 10. Kerrville 11. The Comparette Home 12. Cypress Creek Cemetery 13. The Cypress Creek School 14. Christian Dietert Mil] 15. The Dowdy Tragedy of 1878 16. Eazl y Settlers of Kerr County 17. Order of the Eastern Staz, Chapter #24 18. First Baptist Church 19. First Christian Church 20. First Presbyterian Church-Historical Landmark 21. First Presbyterian Church 22. First Schoolhouse 23. First United Methodist Church 24. Henderson Cemetery 25. Hermann Sons Home for the Aged 26. Hunt 27. Hunt Japonica Cemetery 28. Education in Hunt 24. Indian Sites 30. Ken County 3 I .James Kerr 32. Kerrville Mountain Sun 33. Kerrville Telephone Company 34. Kerrville Lodge #697 A.F. & A.M. 35. Nichols Cemetery 36.Old Ingram 37. The Pampell Opera House 38. Remount Station 39. Site of Reservation School 40. Rising Staz Lodge No 429 A.F. & A.M. 41. Roggenbucke Homestead 42. A.C. Schreiner, Jr. Home 43. Captain Chazles Schreiner-Hill Country Museum (2 markers) 44. Gus F. Schreiner Home 45. Schreiner College (Schreiner Institute) 46. Schumacher Crossing on the Guadalupe River 47. Site of Sherman's Mill 48. Saint Peter's Episcopal Church 49. Stoneleigh Ranch 50. Sunset Cemetery 51. Captain 7oseph Tivy 52. The Original Building of Tivy School 53. Turtle Creek School and Cemetery 54. Wharton Cemetery 55. Woolls Building 56. YO Ranch 57. Site of Zanzenberg 58. Zion Lutheran Church Five Buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places Site of Camp Verde-1936-no plaque Original Masonic Building-1890-no plaque Hill Country Museum (Chazles Schreiner Home}no plaque r Gus F. Schreiner Home-no plaque Woolls Building-has a plaque Markers soon to be placed Divide School Starkey Cemetery Texas Lions Camp Kerr County Historical Markers-with Complete Text and GPS locations (as of Apri115, 2005) 1. SITE OF ANIMAL HEALTH DISCOVERY IN THIS BUILDING (AT MENARD) DURING THE LATE 1930x, DR. EDWARD F. KNIPLING (b. 1909) ADVANCED THEORY SCREWWORMS MIGHT BE ERADICATED BY RELEASING STERILE MALE FLIES TO BREAK CHAIN OF REPRODUCTION AND SAV E LIVESTOCK FROM ROLE OF HOST TO PARASITIC LARVAE THAT DESTROY LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE. DURING 1950-51, THIS LABORATORY (REMOVED TO KERRVILLE AREA) WAS SITE OF STERILIZATION OF MALE SCREWWORMS WITH HiRADIAT[ON, IN PROCEDURES BY DR. R.C. BUSHLAND AND D.E. HOPKINS. THE OUTCOME: ERADICATION OF THE SCREWWORM AND SAVING OF DOMESTIC AND WILD ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES. (1973) Located north of Kerrville on Texas 16 about ahalf--mile north of Interstate 10. Marker behind locked gate except during weekday business hours. GPS Location North 30 04 29.3 West 99 06 38.5 2. BROWN CEMETERY DURING THE LATE 1840x, JOSHUA D. BROWN (1816-1876) TRAVELED FROM GONZALES AND ESTABLISHED A CYPRESS SHINGLE MILL ON THE SITE OF WHAT IS NOW KERRVILLE. THIS CEMETERY DATES FROM 1872 WHEN BROWN'S NEPHEW, ---- THOMAS GOBS WAS BURIED HERE. THE GRAVES OF BROWN AND HIS WIFE, SARAH JANE (GOBS) AND SARAH'S PARENTS, THE REV. JOHN AND MARY GOBS, ARE ALSO LOCATED HERE. IN 1923, USE OF PART OF THE BROWN CEMETERY WAS GRANTED TO THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY OF THE LOCAL AMERICAN LEGION POST FOR VETERANS' BURIAL GROUND THAT CAME TO BE CALLED KERRVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY. (TEXAS SESQUICENTENNIAL 1836-1986) Located 3 miles east of downtown Kerrville off Texas 27 on Spur 100 about 3/10 mile north. GPS location North 30 00 48.8 West 99 0636.8 3. CADE HOUSE ALABAMA NATIVE GUILFORD MARION CADE (1821-1887) WAS A DOCTOR IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY PRIOR TO HIS MOVING TO TEXAS IN 1865. HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO KERB COUNTY IN 1883 AND PURCHASED THIS PROPERTY. CADE'S SON, GILFORD P. CADE, BOUGHT THE PROPERTY FROM HIS SIBLINGS IN 1901 AND BUILT A FRAME HOUSE AFTER THE FAMILY'S LOG CABIN WAS DESTROYED IN A STORM. AS THE FAMILY GREW LARGER IN THE EARLY 1930x, HE AND HIS SON, MARION, BUILT THIS STONE HOUSE HIGH ON A HILL FACING EAST. THE TWO-STORY HOUSE IS COMPOSED OF IRREGULAR COURSED RUBBLE MASONRY W ITH A REAR WING ADDITION MADE OF RANDOM COURSE FACED ASHLAR. MARION CADE USED THE RANDOM STONES OF HIS HOUSE AS DEMONSTRATION MODELS FOR CLIENTS OF HIS CARPENTRY BUSINESS. THE SECOND STORY LANDING IS SUPPORTED ON LARGE STONE POSTS AND ROUGH-HEWN BEAMS. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK-1999 Located an Cade Loop Road, 1.3 miles south of Texas 39 outside Ingram GPS location (front gate) North 3004 07.1 West 99 16 10.6 4. CAMP VERDE GENERAL STORE AND POST OFFICE MERCANTILE BUSINESS OPENED 1857 AS WILLIAMS COMMUNITY STORE, SERVING TRADE AROUND CAMP VERDE ARMY POST (SITE OF U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT'S 1857-1869 CAMEL EXPERIMENT) POST OFFICE OPENED IN 1887. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK-1971 Located off Texas 173 South of Kerrville at the intersection of Old Camp Verde Road GPS location North 29 53 39.2 West 99 06 17.4 5. CAMP VERDE CSA TEXAS FRONTIER REGIMENT OUTPOST WAS ESTABLISHED 1862 11 M. SOUTHEAST AND NEAR OLD U.S. POST CAMP VERDE. PART OF RED RIVER-RIO GRANDE LINE OF POSTS A DAY'S HORSEBACK RIDE. THE TROOPS FURNISHED OWN GUNS, MOUNTS, BUT OFTEN LACKED FOOD, CLOTHING, SUPPLIES. STILL SCOUTING PARTIES PATROL EFFECTIVELY CURBED INDIAN RAIDS UNTIL WARS END. KERR COUNTY POPULATION WAS 585. COUNTY VOTED 76-57 FOR SECESSION 1861. 75 MEN SERVED IN CONFEDERATE AND UNITED STATES FORCES. SOME SENT TO PROTECT TEXAS COAST FROM UNION INVASION. SOME HELPED TO DEFEND FRONTIER IN THIS REGION. OTHERS FOUGHT ON DISTANT BATTLEFIELDS. 19 MEN FROM COUNTY SERVED IN TEXAS UNION FORCES. OLD U. S. POST CAMP WAS TAKEN BY (to back of monument) C.S.A. TROOPS FEB,1861. THE CONFEDERATES CAPTURED 80 CAMELS AND TWO EGYPTIAN DRIVERS WITH OTHER U.S. PROPERTY. THESE CAMELS WERE USED TO HAUL COTTON-LIFE'S BLOOD OF SOUTH TO MEXICO TO SWAP FOR VITAL SUPPLIES, INCLUDING SALT FROM LAKES NORTH OF BROWNSVILLE. DURING POST DANCES ^'^ LADIES RODE A CAMEL °OLD MAJOR" AROUND THE PARADE GROUNDS. 600 UNION SOLDIERS CAPTURED LEAVING TEXAS EARLY IN THE CIVIL WAR WERE CONFINED TO PRISON CANYON, SOUTHWEST OF THE CAMP. 3 CLIFFS DESCRIBED AS "VERY DIFFICULT TO ASCEND" SURROUNDED THE PRISON AREA. PRISONERS HELD FROM AUG. 1861 UNTIL SOMETIME IN 1862 WERE ALLOWED TO BUILD SHACKS AND GET ADEQUATE EXERCISE WITH LITTLE RISK OF ESCAPE. ONE UNION PRISONER PERFORMED AS A VENTRILOQUIST AT POST DANCES, SCARING LADIES WITH UNSEEN PIG SOUNDS. ERECTED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS 1964 Located on the southwest corner of the Kerr County Courthouse grounds near the intersection of Texas 16 and Texas 27 GPS location North 30 02 50.7 West 99 OS 25.2 6. ONE MILE TO RUINS OF CAMP VERDE ESTABLISED AS A FRONTIER POST BY THE UNITED STATES ARMY, JULY 8, 1855. HEADQUARTERS IN 1856 FOR 40 CAMELS, SENT BY SECRETARY OF WAR, JEFFERSON DAMS, TO BE USED IN A SYSTEM OF OVERLAND COMMUNICATION WITH THE WEST WHICH PROVED IMPRACTICAL. SURRENDERED TO THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT IN 1861. REOCCUPIED IN 1865 BY THE UNITED STATES ARMY. ABANDONED APRIL 1, 1869. ERECTED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS 1936 Located off Texas 173 across the street from the Camp Yerde Store in a public park ~' GPS location North 29 53 25.7 West 99 07 13.5 7. SITE OF CAMP VERDE ESTABLISHED AS A FRONTIER POST BY THE UNITED STATES ARMY, JULY 8,1855. HEADQUARTERS IN 1856 FOR 40 CAMELS SENT BY SECRETARY OF WAR, JEFFERSON, TO BE USED IN A SYSTEM OF OVERLAND COMMUNICATION WITH THE WEST, WHICH PROVED IMPRACTICAL. SURRENDERED TO THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT IN 1861. REOCCUPIED IN 1865 BY THE UNITED STATES ARMY. ABANDONED APRIL 1, 1869. ERECTED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS 1936 Located one mile west of Texas 173 on Old Camp Verde Road GPS location North 29.53 35.8 West 9906 18.2 8. CENTER POINT CEMETERY THE EARLIEST KNOWN SETTLERS IN THIS AREA WERE MRS. ELIZABETH DENTON AND HER CHILDREN AND SLAVES WHO ARRIVED IN 1852. THEY WERE JOINED IN 1858 BY THE FAMILY OF DR. CHARLES GANAHL, WHO NAMED THE NEW COMMUNITY ZANZENBERG, AFTER HIS HOMETOWN IN AUSTRIA. THE TOWN BECAME KNOWN AS CENTER POINT IN 1872, AND SETTLERS CONTINUED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA. IN 1872 LAND WAS PURCHASED FOR A CHURCH AND CEMETERY ON THIS SITE, AND IN 1881 TWO ACRES WERE ADDED TO THE PROPERTY TO ENLARGE THE CEMETERY. THE CHURCH WAS MOVED OFF THE PROPERTY AND ANOTHER LAND ACQUISITION IN 1901 INCREASED THE CEMETERY PROPERTY TO 5.3 ACRES. APPROXIMATELY 1,452 GRAVES HAVE BEEN LOCATED HERE. THE OLDEST MARKED BURIAL WAS THAT OF LYDIA BURNEY (1795-1875). MANY EARLY PIONEERS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS ARE BURIED HERE, AS WELL AS 32 TEXAS RANGERS, WHOSE NAMES ARE: W.D.C. BURNEY; N. COLDWELL; J.A. GIBBEN5; H.T. HILL; F.L. "~ HOLLOWAY; RJ. IRVING, SR; R.J. LANGE; J.H. LANE; S.T. LANE, JR; T. LANE; M.A. LOWRANCE; J.L. McELROY; S.G. McELROY; A.S. MOORS; JAMES MOORS; J.T. MOORS; M.F. MOORS; D.C. NOWLIN; J.C. NOWLIN; RW. NOWLIN; P. ALONZO REES; N.O. REYNOLDS; W.H. RISHWORTH; J.L. SELLERS; A.J. SOWELL; W.H. WITT; S.G. WRAY. TEXAS SESQUICENTENNIAL 1836-1956 Located one-half mile southwest of Center Point on F.M. 480, also known as Old Camp Verde Road GPS location North 29 5606.1 West 99 02 16.0 9. CENTER POINT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH TN 1852 BEFORE THERE WAS A TOWN HERE, MRS. HENRIETTA REES AND HER CHILDREN CAME FROM TENNESSEE. SOON, SHE ARRANGED FOR METHODIST CIRCUIT RH)ERS TO COME TO THIS AREA. ONE ACRE WAS BOUGHT FOR A CHURCH IN 1872 FROM W. G. (GABS) COCKS AND HIS WIFE VANILLA. ABOUT 1876 THE REV. W.E. PAFFORD AND TURLEY COCKS BUILT A CHURCH HOUSE. THIS SITE WAS PURCHASED IN 1883 FROM JAMES SELLERS. AFTER A STORM DESTROYED THE FIRST BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION, A SECOND WAS ERECTED. THIS THIRD STRUCTURE WAS COMPLETED IN 1911 BY THE MEN OF THE CONGREGATION. (1979) Located at 118 Church Street in Center Point GPS location North 29 56 36.4 West 99 02 06.4 10. KERRVILLE KERR COUNTY WAS FORMALLY CREATED ON JANUARY 26, 1856, AND NAMED FOR REPUBLIC OF TEXAS SOLDIER AND PIONEER JAMES KERB AMONG THE FIRST SETTLERS IN THE AREA WAS JOSHUA D. BROWN, A VETERAN OF THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO. BROWN WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN NAMING THE COUNTY FOR HIS FRIEND JAMES KERB THE NEW COUNTY SEAT WAS NAMED KERRSVILLE IN MAY 1856 WHEN BROWN DONATED FOUR ACRES OF LAND FOR A PUBLIC SQUARE. (THE «S„ WAS LATER DROPPED.) EARLY KERRVILLE SETTLERS INCLUDED ANGLO-AMERICAN PIONEERS AND GERMAN IMMIGRANTS. THE AREA BECAME AN IMPORTANT CATTLE RAISING AND SHH'PING POINT IN THE 1870x. IN AN ELECTION HELD ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1889, THE CITIZENS OF KERRVILLE VOTED TO INCORPORATE THE CITY, AND A MAYOR AND FIVE ALDERMEN WERE ELECTED LATER THAT MONTH. JOSEPH A. TIVY SERVED AS FIRST MAYOR THE TOWN CONTINUED TO GROW. A CITY MARSHAL WAS SOON HIRED AND A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1891. ALSO IN THE 1890s CITY WATER WORKS AND ELECTRIC SERVICE WERE INSTITUTED. BY THE MID-20~ CENTURY AGRICULTURE, MEDICAL SERVICES, AND TOURISM HAD BECOME THE MAJOR ECONOMIC CONCERNS OF THE CITY. KERRVILLE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION- 1989 Located at 800 JunMion Hwy (Texas 27 West) in front of City Hall GPS location North 30 03 26.3 West 99 09 37.8 11. THE COMPARETTE HOME THIS VICTORIAN HOUSE WAS BUILT IN THE TIVY ADDITION BY S. W. AND LAURA SMITH IN 1890. AFTER SEVERAL OTHER OWNERSHIPS, DR R.H.P. WRIGHT, A PROMINENT KERRVILLE PHYSICIAN, OCCUPIED THE PROPERTY FROM 1896 TO 1905. ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS, FAY, MARRIED TEXAS GOVERNOR COKE STEVENSON. D.H. COMPARETTE (1871-1952) CIVIC LEADER, ORGANIZER AND MANAGER OF KERRVILLE TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIVED HERE WITH HIS WIFE BEATRICE, A SCHOOL TEACHER. THE COMPARETTE FAMILY OWNED THE HOME 19051977. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK-1979 Located at 1101 Jefferson Street, three blocks east of the courthouse square GPS location North 30 02 38.8 West 99 08 06.2 12. CYPRESS CREEK CEMETERY THE OLDEST DOCUMENTED GRAVE IN THIS CEMETERY IS THAT OF LAURA STEVES BOERNER (d. 1861), WHOSE HUSBAND, WILHELM BOERNER, WAS KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF NUECES IN AUGUST 1862. ALSO INTERRED IN THE SMALL CEMETERY ON STURDY OAK FARM ARE CHILDREN, PIONEER SETTLERS, AND TWO STRANGERS WHO DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS WHILE TRAVELING THROUGH THE AREA. HAND-CUT STONES MARK THE GRAVE OF THE COMMUNITY'S RESPECTED PHYSICIAN DR. AUGUST PFEIFFER THE CEMETERY PROVH)ES A LINK WITH THE 19"' CENTURY HERITAGE OF THE CYPRESS CREEK COMMUNITY. (1989) Located 8 miles east of Comfort on FM 1341 on private land...can be accessed from Lazy Valley Road also. GPS location North 30 Ol 09.8 West 98 59 11.1 13. THE CYPRESS CREEK SCHOOL PIONEER GERMAN SETTLERS OF THE CYPRESSVILLE COMMUNITY, LATER KNOWN AS CYPRESS CREEK, FORMED A SCHOOL DISTRICT IN 1879. THE ORIGINAL FRAME SCHOOLHOUSE WAS REPLACED BY THIS STRUCTURE IN 1908. BUILT OF LIMESTONE QUARRIED ON OTTO LICH'S PROPERTY, IT WAS COMPLETED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF STONEMASONS CHARLES AND OTTO BARTEL. CLASSES WERE HELD IN THE CYPRESS CREEK SCHOOL UNTIL 1942 WHEN IT WAS CONSOLIDATED WITH THE COMFORT SCHOOL DISTRICT. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK -1982 Located at the interseMion of Lazy Valley Road and Stoneleigh Road, just off Cypress Creek Road GPS Location North 30 0100.3 West 98 58 38.9 14. CHRISTIAN DIETERT MILL GERMAN MILLWRIGHT CHRISTIAN DIETERT BUILT MILLS AT COMFORT AND FREDER[CKSBURG BEFORE MOVING HERE IN 1857. WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF A YOUNG GERMAN MILLER NAMED BALTHASAR LICH, HE CONSTRUCTED A MILL AND DAM NEAR THIS SITE TO SERVE THE PIONEER SETTLERS OF THE COMMUNITY, THEN CALLED KERRSVILLE. DIETERT'S GUADALUPE RIVER MILLING OPERATION PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE GROWTH OF KERRVILLE BY PROCESSING CROPS AND PROVH)ING LUMBER FOR AREA HOMES AND BUILDINGS. THE BUSINESS WAS LATER BOUGHT AND ENLARGED BY CAPTAIN CHARLES SCHREINER, A PROMINENT LOCAL MERCHANT. (1981) SPONSORED BY HERRING PRINTING COMPANY Located at 917 Water Street (in the east parking lot of One Schreiner Center) GPS location North 30 02 39.6 West 99 OS 24.1 15. THE DOWDY FAMILY TRAGEDY OF 1878 THE PIONEER FAMILY OF SUSAN (1830.1913) AND JAMES DOWDY (1818-1900) MOVED FROM GOLIAD TO KERB COUNTY IN 1878 AND SETTLED ON JOHNSON CREEK. SHORTLY AFTER THE FAMILY ARRIVED, FOUR OF THE DOWDY CHILDREN, ALICE, MARTHA, SUSAN AND JAMES, WERE KILLED BY INDIANS WHILE TENDING SHEEP NEAR THEIR HOME. THE ATTACK OCCURRED ON OCT. 5,1878, AT A SITE ABOUT 3.5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRESENT INGRAM. THE VICTIMS WERE BURIED THE FOLLOWING DAY AT SUNSET CEMETERY, NORTHWEST OF INGRAM. THIS INCIDENT WAS ONE OF THE LAST INDIAN RAIDS IN KERB COUNTY. (1979) Located about 8.5 miles northwest of logram on Texas 27 on the south side of the highway GPS location North 30 09 16.5 West 99 20 27.5 16. EARLY SETTLERS OF KERR COUNTY (THE SHINGLE MAKERS) THE EARLIEST PERMANENT SETTLER AT THIS POINT OF THE GUADALUPE WS JOSHUA D. BROWN (181674), A NATIVE OF KENTUCKY WHO CAME TO TEXAS IN 1830 AND SETTLED AT GONZALE$ NEAR A FELLOW KENTUCKIAN, JAMES KERB, SURVEYOR AND RESIDENT MANAGER OF GREEN DeWITT'S COLONY. BROWN DID MILITARY DUTY FOR THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, AFTER MARRYING SARAH JANE GOSS OF GONZALES, HE SOUGHT THE OPPORTUNITIES ON THE FRONTIER, LEARNED THE ART OF HAND-RIVING CYPRESS SHINGLES, AND FOUND HERE ON THE GUADALUPE'S HEADWATERS AN ABUNDANCE OF GIANT CYPRESS TREES SUITABLE FOR COMMERCIAL USE. IN 1846, HE LED TO THIS SITE TEN SHINGLE MAKERS AND BUILT A CAMP OF PICKET HOUSES IN WHICH TO WORK. DESPITE INDIAN RAIDS THAT SOMETIMES DROVE THE CREW TO GONZALES FOR SAFETY, HE MADE A SUCCESS OF THE FIRST INDUSTRY OPERATED AT LATER SITE OF KERRV[LLE. BROWN BOUGHT 2,640 ACRES OF LAND WITH FRONTAGE ON THE RIVER WHEN THE COUNTY WAS ORGANIZED IN 1856. HE INSISTED UPON HAVING IT NAMED FOR HIS FRIEND, JAMES KERB. HE DONATED THE ORIGINAL TOWNSITE, INCLUDING 4 ACRES OF LAND FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND STREETS IN KERRSVILLE (AS TOWN WAS THEN CALLED), THE COUNTY SEAT. HE LIVED OUT HIS LIFETIME ON HIS RANCH NEAR TOWN. A SON, A.P. BROWN WAS COUNTY COMMISSIONER IN 1935-36. (1971) Located on the southwest corner of the Courthouse Squsre at the intersection of Texas 16 and Texas 27 GPS location North 30 02 50.8 West 99 08 24.3 17.ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR KERRVILLE CHAPTER #24 THIS CHAPTER WAS ORGANIZED IN 1896 WITH 21 CHARTER MEMBERS AND IS THE SISTER ORGANIZATION TO THE KERRVILLE MASONIC LODGE. THE FIRST WORTHY MATRON WAS MARY PARSONS AND THE FIRST WORTHY PATRON WAS ED SMALLWOOD. TWO MEMBERS HAVE HELD THE HIGHEST OFFICE AT THE STATE LEVEL. WHILE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ANY CHURCH DENOMINATION, THIS ORGANIZATION SUPPORTS THE GRAND CHAPTER'S SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR RELIGIOUS TRAINING. THiS CHAPTER ALSO HELPS TO MAINTAIN A RETIREMENT HOME FOR ITS AGED MEMBERS AND HAS SERVED THE AREA FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS WITH LOCAL CHARITABLE AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS. (1996) Located at 119 Methodist Encampment Road at the Masonic Lodge GPS location North 30 03 55.7 West 99 10 21.5 18. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF KERRVILLE KERRVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH WAS ORGANIZED IN NNE 1887 WITH ELEVEN CHARTER MEMBERS. SEVEN YEARS LATER THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF KERRVH.LE. ORIGINALLY MEETING IN A UNION CHURCH WITH OTHER DENOMINATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY, THE BAPTIST CONGREGATION BUILT ITS FHLST SANCTUARY IN 1897. IT WAS REPLACED BY A BRICK BUILDING IN 1914, AND THE PRESENT HOUSE OF WORSHIP WAS COMPLETED IN 1951. A PART OF KERRVILLE HISTORY FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS, THIS CHURCH CONTINUES TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY. (1986) Located at 625 Washington Street, three blocks east of Texas 16 GPS location North 30 02 54.5 West 99 OS 05.4 19. FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) OF KERRVILLE IN THE EARLY 1880s A SMALL GROUP OF PIONEER KERRVILLE WOMEN COLLECTED FUNDS TO BUILD A UNION CHURCH, AND A SMALL SANCTUARY WAS COMPLETED IN 1885. METHODIST, BAPTIST, PRESBYTERIAN, AND OTHER CONGREGATIONS SHARED THE BUILDING WITH THE CHRISTIAN (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) FELLOWSHIP FOR MANY YEARS. THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF THE REV. P.E. HAWKINS AND DR. H.R. WALL, THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF KERRVILLE WAS GRANTED SOLE OWNERSHIP OF THE UNION BUILDING IN 1925. THROUGH THE YEARS, ITS MEMBERS HAVE BECOME ACTIVE OUTREACH AND MISSIONARY PROGRAMS. (1985) New church under construction on Lois Street. Marker will be placed when church is completed. New GPS location to be mapped later. 20. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF KERRVILLE OFFICIAL HISTORICAL MEDALLION PRESBYTERIANS IN KERRVILLE SHARED A UNION CHURCH WITH OTHER DENOMINATIONS BEFORE A CONGREGATION WAS FORMALLY ORGANIZED IN 1888. A SMALL WOODEN CHURCH BUILT THAT YEAR WAS REPLACED BY THIS STRUCTURE IN 1923. PROMINENT FEATURES OF THE BEAUX ARTS STYLE SANCTUARY INCLUDE A MONUMENTAL TWO-STORY WOODEN ENTRY WITH FLANKING DORIC COLUMNS, CLASSICAL PEDIMENT AND DECORATIVE DETAILS, AND LARGE ARCHED STAINED GLASS WINDOWS. ,.~ RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK -1987 Located at 800 Jetferson Street on front of church building CPS location North 30 02 51.6 West 99 0 15.9 21. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF KERRVILLE EARLY SETTLERS TO KERRVILLE MET FOR WORSHIP SERVICES IN THE UNION CHURCH BUILT IN 1885. IN 1888, SEVEN CHARTER MEMBERS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION RECEIVED FUNDS TO BUILD THEIR OWN CHURCH. THROUGH THE YEARS THE CONGREGATION HAS GROWN ALONG WITH THE COMMUNITY, BUILDING NEW FACILITIES TO ACCOMMODATE ITS MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES. INNOVATIVE OUTREACH PROGRAMS INCLUDED RADIO BROADCASTS AND SERVICES AT RANCHING COMMUNITIES WEST OF KERRVILLE. THE CONGREGATION CONTINUES TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY WITH VARIOUS ACTIVITIES INCLUDING EDUCATIONAL AND OUTREACH MINISTRIES. (1996) Located in the 800 block of Jefferson Street in front of Richard Ryan Building GPS location North 30 02 49.5 West 99 08 16.0 22. FIRST SCHOOLHOUSE OFFICIAL HISTORICAL MEDALLION BUILT IN 1852 BY J. L. O'CONNER AT CENTER POINT WITH CYPRESS LOGS (12 BY 14 INCHES) CUT FROM NEARBY GUADALUPE RIVER MORTAR WAS AHAND-MIXED SOLUTION OF BAKED LIME AND SAND DUG FROM LOCAL SHALLOW PITS. THE MAKING OF CYPRESS SHAKES FOR ROOFING WAS FH2ST INDUSTRY ALONG GUADALUPE IN KERB COUNTY. CABIN SERVED AS FIRST SCHOOL FOR PIONEER TEXAS CHILDREN IN CENTER POINT COMMUNITY IN 1858. MOVED TO Y.O. RANCH; RESTORED. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK- 1967 Located inside the Y.O. Ranch near the Remount Station...15.2 miles from Mountain Home off Texas 41 GPS location North 30 12 26.8 West 99 40 08.7 23. KERRVILLE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH BEGINNING IN 1854, AREA RESIDENTS WERE LED BY METHODIST CIRCUIT RH)ERS IN WORSHIP SERVICES AT VARIOUS HOMES AND IN A BRUSH ARBOR IN 1858, THE KERRVILLE AREA WAS INCLUDED IN THE NEWLY DESIGNATED RIO GRANDE CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. MEMBERS OF KERRVILLE'S METHODIST CONGREGATION CONTINUED MEETING IN HOMES UNTIL 1871, WHEN THE CONSTRUCTED A WOOD FRAME CHURCH IN DOWNTOWN KERRVILLE. THE BUILDING ALSO SERVED AS A SCHOOL AND PUBLIC MEETING PLACE BUT WAS DESTROYED LATER IN A STORM. IN 1876, THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT ALLOWED LOCAL ,,,,,_ CONGREGATIONS TO USE THE DISTRICT COURTROOM FOR MEETINGS AND SERVICES. IN 1885, THE COMMUNITY CONSTRUCTED A UNION CHURCH BUILDING FOR USE BY SEVERAL DENOMINATIONS, INCLUDING THE METHODISTS. THREE YEARS LATER, THE METHODIST CHURCH HAD ITS FIRST RESIDENT PASTOR, THE REV. F. S. PERRIN, WHO LED THE CONGREGATION IN CHOOSING A SITE FOR A NEW CHURCH BUILDING. DEDICATED IN 1892, THE SANCTUARY AT SIDNEY BAKER AND JEFFERSON STREETS SERVED A GROWING CONGREGATION, AND NUMEROUS ADDITIONS, INCLUDING WINGS BUILT IN 1906, SERVED AS SUNDAY SCHOOL ROOMS. THE CONGREGATION CONSTRUCTED A NEW SANCTUARY THERE IN 1927 AND CONTINUED WORSHIPPING AT THAT STTE UNTIL DEVELOPING A NEW CAMPUS AT THIS LOCATION IN THE 1970s. KERRVILLE'S FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HAS CREATED STRONG EDUCATION AND SERVICE PROGRAMS, INCLUDING GROUPS FOR MEN, WOMEN, YOUTH AND CHILDREN. THESE HAVE EXPANDED ALONG WITH THE CHURCH'S MEMBERSHIP. THE CHURCH MEMBERS CONTINUE TO VALUE THEIR HISTORY, MAINTAINING THEIR TRADITIONS AND CREATING NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE AND WORSHIP. (2004) Located at 321 Thompson Drive just west of River Hills Mall GPS location North 30 02 47.0 West 99 08 57.5 24. HENDERSON CEMETERY (TWO MILES NORTH) HOWARD HENDERSON (1842-1908) CAME TO TEXAS IN 1857. HE WAS A SURVIVOR OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF THE NUECES IN 1862, IN WHICH HE AND OTHER UNIONISTS WERE AMBUSHED BY A CONFEDERATE FORCE NEAR THE NUECES RIVER. HE LATER SERVED AS A TEXAS RANGER. HENDERSON MARRIED NARCISSA TURKETT IN 1866 AND THEY SETTLED NEAR THIS SITE IN 1870. UPON THE DEATHS OF THEIR INFANT TWIN SONS, THOMAS AND PHH.IP, THEY BEGAN A FAMH,Y BURIAL GROUND WHICH BECAME KNOWN AS HENDERSON CEMETERY. OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND NEIGHBORS WERE ALSO BURIED IN THE GRAVEYARD. (1990) Located 2.25 miles northwest of Ingram on Texas 27 GPS location North 30 OS 56.7 West 99 15 41.3 25. HERMANN SONS HOME FOR THE AGED A FRATERNAL GROUP ORIGINALLY FOR PERSONS OF GERMAN DESCENT, THE SONS OF HERMANN GREW RAPIDLY AFTER THE FOUNDING OF THE FHtST TEXAS LODGE 1860-61. AT A MEETING IN AUSTIN IN 1913, MEMBERS VOTED TO ESTABLISH A HOME FOR THE AGED, TO BE CALLED "ALTENHEIM". THIS WAS ONE OF THE FHtST HOMES FOR THE AGED STARTED BY A FRATERNAL GROUP [N TEXAS. THE CITIZENS OF COMFORT RAISED $7,000 TO BUY THIS 202-ACRE TRACT FOR THE FACILITY. LODGE MEMBERS FROM AROUND THE STATE CONTRIBUTED FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LIMESTONE BUILDING 1915-16. p9~) Located off Texas 27 Esst across the Guadalupe River just west of Comfort GPS location North 29 56 28.2 West 98 55 41.6 26. HUNT FARMERS AND RANCHERS SETTLED ALONG THE NORTH AND SOUTH FORKS OF THE GUADALUPE RIVER W THE LATE 1850s, FORMING THE JAPONICA AND PEBBLE COMMUNITIES. IN 1912, ALTUS AND LIZZIE JOY BOUGHT LAND AT THE CONFLUENCE AND NAMED THE CENTRAL SETTLEMENT THAT DEVELOPED THERE IN HONOR OF ROBERT HUNT, THE PRIOR LANDOWNER ALTUS JOY ESTABLISHED A POST OFFICE IN 1913, AND AN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FORMED IN THE 1930s. BY THE 1930s, THE AREA BEGAN ATTRACTING ARTISTS, INCLUDING THE ACCLAIMED E. M. SCHIWETZ. DURING THE NEXT DECADES, HUNT BECAME A CENTER FOR SUMMER CAMPS, EXOTIC GAME RANCHES, AND RELIGIOUS AND CORPORATE RETREAT FACILITIES, BUT RETAINED ITS IDENTITY AS A SMALL, RURAL COMMUNITY. (2004) Located on Texas 39 just east of the Southfork River Crossing near the entrance to Camp La Junta GPS location North 30 04 40.7 West 99 20 47.1 27. HUNT JAPONICA CEMETERY THE OLDEST LEGIBLE TOMBSTONE IN THIS CEMETERY IS THAT OF GEORGE T. HENRY. IT IS DATED 1872, SIXTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FORMAL ORGANIZATION OF KERB COUNTY. THE GRAVEYARD IS LOCATED BETWEEN THE TOWN OF HUNT AND THE EARLY COMMUNITY OF JAPONICA. IT HAS BEEN USED FOR THE BURIAL OF MANY AREA PIONEERS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, AND CONTAINS A LARGE NUMBER OF UNMARKED GRAVES, ALTHOUGH INUNDATED BY FLOODWATERS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, THE HUNT JAPONICA CEMETERY REMAINS IN USE AS AN IMPORTANT PART OF KERR COUNTY'S RECORDED HISTORY. TEXAS SESQUICENTENNIAL 18361986 Located on FM 1340 northwest of Hunt GPS location North 30 04 40.7 West 99 20 47.1 28. EDUCATION IN HUNT ESTABLISHED ABOUT 1915, THE HUNT SCHOOL COMBINED EARLIER RURAL SCHOOLS ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH FORKS OF THE GUADALUPE RIVER THAT SERVED THE CHILDREN OF EARLY SETTLERS OF KERR COUNTY. WCREASED ENROLLMENT AND FLOODS PROMPTED THE COMMUNITY TO BUILD A NEW SCHOOL FARTHER FROM THE RIVER IN 1926. IN 1934 CITIZENS VOTED FOR INCORPORATION OF THE HUNT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. LOW ENROLLMENT CAUSED THE UPPER GRADES TO TRANSFER TO KERRVILLE FROM 1938 TO 1980, WHEN GRADES 7d2 TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW TOM MOORE RICH SCHOOL. THE HUNT SCHOOL CONTINUES TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY. (1996) "` Located on School Street about 300 west of FM 1340 north of Hunt GPS location North 30 0411.3 West 99 20 19.8 29. INDIAN SITES ON CYPRESS CREEK NAMED STURDY OAK FARM" FOR AN ANCIENT LIVE OAK, THIS PROPERTY HAS BELONGED TO THE LICH FAMILY SINCE 1879. MR AND MRS. ERNST PERRY LICH BECAME THE OWNERS IN 1945. THREE SIGNIFICANT PREHISTORIC SITES ON THIS PROPERTY INDICATE ITS IMPORTANCE FOR HUMAN HABITATION FOR AT LEAST 10,000 YEARS. TOOLS FROM THE SITES REPRESENT SEVERAL ARCHEOLOGICAL PERIODS FROM PALED-INDIAN THROUGH ARCHAIC TIMES. THE SITES ARE NEAR SPRING-FED POOLS IN CYPRESS CREEK. ARTIFACTS DISCOVERED AT THE THREE LOCATIONS INCLUDE ARROWHEADS, KNIVES, BEADS, AND STONE TOOLS LEFT BY NOMADIC TRIBES THAT ONCE WANDERED THIS AREA. (1978) Located on FM 1341 about 8 miles west of Comfort GPS location North 30 Ol 41.7 West 98 58 48.0 30. KERB COUNTY FORMED FROM BEXAR COUNTY CREATED JANUARY 26, 1856 ORGANIZED MARCH 22,1856 NAMED IN HONOR OF JAMES KERB, 1790-1850 THE FIRST AMERICAN SETTLER ON THE GUADALUPE RIVER .GENERAL MANAGER OF DE WITT'S COLONY. SIGNER OF THE TEXAS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. MEMBER OF THE THIRD TEXAS CONGRESS. COUNTY SEAT, KERRSVILLE (AFTERWARDS KERRVILLE),1856-1860 COMFORT, 1860-1862; KERRVILLE, SINCE. Located about 1.2 miles east of the VA Hospital on Texas 27 GPS location North 29 39 45.5 West 99 06 01.1 31. JAMES KERB (1790-1850) KENTUCKY NATIVE JAMES KERR, SON OF A BAPTIST MINISTER, WAS REARED IN MISSOURI. KERR FOUGHT IN THE WAR OF 1812 AND WAS LATER SHERIFF OF ST. CHARLES, COUNTY, MISSOURI. HE MARRED ANGELINE CALDWELL IN 1818 AND SERVED IN THE MISSOURI SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. KERB WAS "'~ APPOINTED SURVEYOR GENERAL OF THE TEXAS COLONY OF GREEN DEWITT IN 1825. WITH HIS WIFE, THREE CHILDREN AND SEVERAL SLAVES, HE JOINED STEPHEN F. AUSTIN'S "OLD THREE HUNDRED" COLONY IN BRAZORA. IN AUGUST 1825 HE SET OUT TO SELECT A SITE FOR THE DEWITT COLONY. KERB NAMED THE COMMUNITY GONZALES IN HONOR OF THE GOVERNOR OF COAHUILA, MEXICO, BY THIS TIME, ANGELINE KERB AND TWO OF THE CHILDREN HAD PASSED AWAY. KERR WAS ACTIVE IN AREA POLITICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT DURING THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS. HE ACTED AS ATTORNEY AND SURVEYOR FOR BENJAMIN RUSH MILAM IN 1827. HE NEGOTIATED FOR PEACE BEFORE THE FREDONIAN REBELLION, SIGNED A TREATY WITH THE KARANKAWA INDIANS AND FOUGHT OTHER TRIBES. HE WAS THE LAVACA DELEGATE AT THE CONVENTION AT SAN FELIPE DE AUSTIN IN 1832 AND SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE SECOND AND THIRD CONVENTIONS. TWO YEARS LATER, HE MARRIED SARAH FULTON. HE BECAME A MAJOR IN THE TEXAS RANGERS IN 1835 AND IN THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS ARMY IN 1836. HE WAS ELECTED TO THE THIRD TEXAS CONGRESS IN 1838. KERR'S LATER YEARS WERE SPENT PRACTICING MEDICINE IN JACKSON COUNTY. IN 1856, PIONEER JOSHUA BROWN GAVE THE LAND AROUND THIS SITE IN ORDER THAT KERR COUNTY BE NAMED FOR HIS LONGTIME FRIEND, TEXAS FRONTIERSMN AND PATRIOT JAMES KERR. 121 Located oa the southwest corner of the Kerr County Courthouse grounds GPS location North 30 02 30.9 West 99 OS 24.0 32. KERRVILLE MOUNTAIN SUN THE "KERRVILLE MOUNTAIN SUN^ CAN TRACE ITS HISTORY TO AN 1870s PUBLICATION KNOWN AS "THE FRONTIERSMAN." LATER CALLED "THE NEWS," "THE EYE," AND "THE PAPER," THE "MOUNTAIN SUN° WAS GIVEN ITS CURRENT NAME BY J.E. GRINSTEAD AFTER HE PURCHASED THE NEWSPAPER IN 1898. AN ADVENTURER, WRITER, AND EARLY PHOTOGRAPHER, GRINSTEAD SOLD THE "MOUNTAIN SUN" 1N 1912 IN 1919 IT CAME UNDER THE FULL OWNERSHII' OF BROTHERS W.A. AND CLARENCE SALTER. OVER THE YEARS, THE "KERRVILLE MOUNTAIN SUN" HAS PROVH)ED A SIGNIFICANT SERVICE TO THE CITIZENS OF KERRVILLE. TEXAS SESQUICENTENNIAL 1836-1986 Located on building at 301 McFarland. Newspaper now housed with Kerrville Daily Times at 429 Jefferson. GPS location North 30 03 11.9 West 99 08 31.6 33. KERRVILLE TELEPHONE COMPANY A.C. SCHREINER AND D.H. COMPARETTE, SR., STARTED THE KERRVILLE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE IN 1896 WITH A HANDSHAKE AND $1,000. THE Fll2ST CONNECTION WAS BETWEEN TWO SCHREINER WOOL WAREHOUSES, AND OTHER BUSINESSES SOON APPLIED FOR SERVICE. IN 1898 LINES WERE EXTENDED FROM KERRVILLE TO ROCKSPRINGS, HARPER, JUNCTION, AND MEDINA. MANY LOCAL RANCHES SERVED AS TOLL STATIONS, A PRACTICE THAT CONTINUED UNTIL THE 1950s. INCORPORATED IN 1907, THE KERRVILLE TELEPHONE COMPANY FUNCTIONED FOR OVER A CENTURY AS ONE OF THE FEW FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED TELEPHONE COMPANIES IN TEXAS. (1996) • - Located at 958 Water Street GPS location North 30 02 36.0 West 99 OS 18.2 34. KERRVILLE LODGE N0.697, A.F. & A.M. ORGANIZED BY MASONS AFFILIATED WITH RISING STAR LODGE IN NEARBY CENTER POINT, KERRVILLE LODGE NO. 697 WAS CHARTERED ON DECEMBER 11, 1890. THE 21 CHARTER MEMBERS ELECTED ED 5MALLWOOD AS THEIR FHiST WORSHIPFUL MASTER. ATWO-STORY STONE BUILDING ERECTED BY CHARLES SCHREINER SERVED AS THE INSTITUTION'S HEADQUARTERS UNTIL A SECOND STRUCTURE WAS ACQUH2ED IN 1927. CONSTRUCTION OF THE CURRENT BUILDING BEGAN IN DECEMBER 1972, AND IT WAS FORMALLY DEDICATED IN FEBRUARY 1974. THE KERRVILLE MASONIC LODGE HAS SERVED THE COMMUNITY WITH MANY PROGRAMS. (1990) Located at 119 Methodist Encampment Road...off Texas 27 West GPS location North 30 03 %.0 West 99 10 21.0 35. NICHOLS CEMETERY BORN ABOUT 1805, ROWLAND NICHOLS SETTLED IN KERR COUNTY WHERE HE SERVED AS COUNTY COMMISSIONER UPON HIS DEATH AT THE HANDS OF INDIANS, NICHOLS WAS BURIED, AS HE WISHED, UNDER A LIVE OAK TREE ON HIS FARM ON APRIL 11, 1859. THIS SITE BECAME A COMMUNITY BURIAL PLACE OF MANY AREA PIONEERS, INCLUDING J.C.W. INGRAM (1829-1902), FOR WHOM THE TOWN OF INGRAM WAS NAMED. ADDITIONAL PROPERTY WAS LATER PURCHASED FROM LAFAYETTE NICHOLS TO ENLARGE THE CEMETERY. FOR OVER A CENTURY NICHOLS CEMETERY HAS SERVED THE RESIDENTS OF THIS PART OF KERR COUNTY. (1952) Located on Texas 27 West between Kerrville and Ingram GPS location North 30 04 21.3 West 99 1254.6 36. OLD INGRAM SETTLERS BEGAN ARRIVING IN THIS VICINITY PRIOR TO THE CIVIL WAR. IN 1879 THE REVEREND J.C.W. INGRAM, A CHURCH OF CHRIST MINISTER FROM CALIFORNIA, BOUGHT THE LAND AT THIS SITE FROM PIONEER SETTLER ABNER MCWHORTER MORRISS. INGRAM SOON OPENED A GENERAL STORE AND POST OFFICE. A COMMUNITY GREW AROUND THE STORE AND THRIVED FOR FIFTY YEARS AS A COMMERCIAL CENTER DURING THE 1930s A NEW HIGHWAY WAS CONSTRUCTED NEARBY, AND THE ORIGINAL TOWNSITE GRADUALLY WAS ABANDONED AS BUSINESSES BEGAN TO RELOCATE. TODAY OLD INGRAM IS AN ARTS CENTER WITH STUDIOS, GALLERIES, CRAFT AND GIFT SHOPS. (1983) "" Located off Texas 39 on the Old Ingram Loop GPS location North 30 04 20.3 West 99 14.37.6 37. THE PAMPELL OPERA HOUSE ORIGINALLY A FRAME STRUCTURE, THIS BUILDING WAS COMPLETED ABOUT 1895. IT HOUSED THE M.V. GREGORY HOTEL AND STORE WHEN LOCAL MERCHANT JOHN L. PAMPELL (1871-1958) BOUGHT THE SITE IN 1901. HE CONVERTED THE SECOND FLOOR INTO A 450.SEAT AUDITORIUM AND USED THE GROUND FLOOR FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF CANDY, ICE CREAM, AND CARBONATED DRINKS. THE PAMPELL OPERA HOUSE BECAME A POPULAR SITE FOR PLAYS, CONCERTS, TRAVELING ACTS, AND VARIOUS CIVIC FUNCTIONS, BUT BY THE 1920s MOVIES BEGAN REPLACING THE LIVE SHOWS. TRACES OF THE OPERA HOUSE ARE STILL EVIDENT INSIDE THE BUILDING. (1981) Located on the corner of Water Street and Texas 16, or Sidney Baker, just before the Guadalupe River bridge GPS location North 30 02 47.2 West 99 08 29.4 38. REMOUNT STATION BUILT DURING THE 1850s IN WAKING BY AN UNKNOWN SETTLER. CONSTRUCTED WITH ELM LOGS MEASURING EIGHT INCHES WIDE. OFFERED FOOD AND LODGING TO STAGECOACH TRAVELERS BETWEEN SAN ANTONIO AND POINTS WEST DURING THE 1870s. CABIN WAS ONCE THE HOME OF A SETTLER WHO PROVH)ED HORSES AND SADDLES FOR PONY EXPRESS RIDERS, SO IT BECAME KNOWN AS REMOUNT STATION AND STAGE STOP. MOVED TO THE Y.O. RANCH, RESTORED. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK-1967 Located on the Y.O. Ranch...15.2 miles west of Mountain Home on Texas 41 GPS location North 30 12 25.2 West 99 OS 29.4 39. SITE OF RESERVATION SCHOOL A5 SETTLEMENT IN KERR COUNTY BEGAN TO SPREAD TO OUTLYING AREAS AT THE END OF THE 19'~ CENTURY, NEIGHBORS GRADUALLY FORMED SCHOOLS IN WHICH TO EDUCATE THE[R CHILDREN. THE RESERVATION SCHOOL BEGAN [N 1907 AS A ONE-ROOM SCHOOL AND ALSO HOUSED A BAPTIST CHURCH CONGREGATION. IT WAS RELOCATED TO THIS SITE IN 1919 AFTER ANTON AND EMMY ESQUELL DEEDED A PORTION OF THEIR LAND FOR A SCHOOL. A LARGER TWO-ROOM BUILDING AND OUTBUILDINGS INCLUDING HORSE STALLS AND A TEACHERAGE WERE ERECTED TO ACCOMMODATE AN INCREASING STUDENT POPULATION. IN 1935 THE BAPTIST CONGREGATION CHANGED ITS NAME AND MOVED TO NEW FACILITIES. THE SCHOOL CONTINUED IN OPERATION UNTIL 1939, WHEN STUDENTS WERE BUSSED TO OTHER ~_ AREA SCHOOLS. VOTERS OFFICIALLY APPROVED CONSOLIDATION WITH HARPER SCHOOLS IN NEIGHBORING GILLESPIE COUNTY IN 1941. (2~) Located tour miles north of Interstate 10 of FM 479 and then one mile west on Tatsch Road GPS location North 30 14 34,5 West 99 20 36.7 40. RISING STAR LODGE N0.429, A.F. & A.M. CHARTERED ON NNE 5,1875, TH[S LODGE WAS FIRST LOCATED IN A BUILDIING WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1900, ALONG WITH ALL THE LODGE RECORDS. MEETINGS WERE HELD IN THE GUADALUPE VALLEY BANK BUILDING FROM 1902 UNTIL THE LODGE MOVED TO THIS SITE IN 1964. CHARTER MEMBERS OF THE LODGE WERE: MH.ES A. LOWRANCE, JOSHUA D. BROWN, WILLIAM D. C. BURNEY, H.B. DOLLAHITE, ALONZO BEES, A.S. MOORE, JOHN F. MOORE, SIDNEY B. REES, THEODORE WIEDENFELD, STEPHEN G. WRAY, GEORGE W. WOOLS, JAMES M. WITT, SAMUEL H. WELLBORN, F.M. MOORE, AND THOMAS C. NORTH. TEXAS SESQUICENTENNIAL 1836-1986 Located in downtown Center Point on San Antonio Street GPS location North 2956 44.1 West 99 02 13.7 41. ROGGENBUCKE HOMESTEAD PRUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS OSCAR AND LOUISE (V1'EISS) VON ROGGENBUCKE WERE AMONG THE FIRST SETTLERS IN THE COMFORT AREA, ARRIVING IN 1855. THEY BOUGHT THIS FARM LAND AND BUILT A HOME HERE FOR THEHt LARGE FAMILY. DURING THE CIVIL WAR, MORTCZ AND FRANZ WEISS, ROGGENBUCKE'S STEPSONS, WERE KILLED IN THE NUECES RIVER MASSACRE. THEY WERE AMONC 36 GERMAN SETTLERS WHO WERE ATTEMPTING TO JOIN UNION TROOPS WHEN THEY WERE ATTACKED BY CONFEDERATE FORCES ROGGENBUCKE'S GRANDSON EDGAR, A COMFORT AREA SCULPTOR, CREATED A SCROLL THAT HANGS OVER THE DOOR OF THE HOME. (1983) Located south of Interstate 10 off Old Cypress Creek Road (North Creek Road) private residence GPS location North 2959 09.6 West 98 55 18.6 42. A.C. SCHREINER, JR. HOME PROMINENT KERRVILLE RANCHER, BUSINESSMAN, PHILANTHROPIST, AND CIVIC LEADER CHARLES A. SCHREINER BUILT THE ORIGINAL PART OF THIS HOUSE IN 1897 AS A WEDDING GIFT FOR HIS SON C.A., JR IN 1912 IT BECAME THE HOME OF SCHREINER'S GRANDSON A.C. SCHREINER, JR. (1890.1963), ALSO AN ACTIVE AREA BUSINESS LEADER. THE SECOND FLOOR, ARCHED PORCH, AND TILE ROOF WERE ADDED IN 1927. DESIGNED BY NOTED SAN ANTONIO ARCHITECT ALFRED GILES, THEY REFLECT INFLUENCES OF THE SPANISH STYLE. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK-1981 Located at 405 Water Street just west of downtown Kerrville GPS location North 30 02 56.9 West 99 OS 40.4 43. CAPTAIN CHARLES SCHREINER (1838-192' ENTERPRISING BUSINESSMAN. BORN IN FRANCE. MOVED (1852) TO U.S, WITH PARENTS. SERVED WITH DISTINCTION IN TEXAS RANGERS, 1854-1857. FOUGHT WITH CONFEDERACY IN CIVIL WAR. IN 1869 BEGAN GENERAL STORE IN KERRVILLE. ACTIVITIES EXPANDED TO INCLUDE BANKING, RANCHING, AND MARKETING WOOL AND MOHAIR. HE ALSO STARTED ONE OF THE FIRST WOOL AND MOHAIR WAREHOUSES IN TEXAS. BY 1900 HE OWNED 600,000 ACRES OF LAND AND BY 1945 HIS COUNTRY STORE WAS ONE OF MOST PROGRESSIVE IN THE SOUTHWEST. AMONG HIS MANY PHILANTHROPIC ACT! VITIES WAS THE FOUNDING OF SCHREINER INSTITUTE (COLLEGE). (1970) STATE HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE MEDALLION ON BUILDING WITH PLAQUE CHAS. SCHREINER MOVED FROM TURTLE CREEK RANCH TO A LUMBER HOUSE ON THIS SITE IN 1869. IN 1879 HERMAN STIELER BUH,T THE SOUTH PORTION OF THIS ROCK HOUSE. REMAINER OF STRUCTURE AND DECORATIVE ROCK WORK WAS COMPLETED IN 1899. BOUGHT BY MASONIC LODGE 697 A.F, & A.M. IN 1922. Located at 226 Earl GarreH between Main and Wafer Street...aow houses Hill Country Museum GPS location North 30 02 46.4 West 99 08 24.3 44. GUS F. SCHREINER HOME IN 1883 WEALTHY RANCHER AND BANKER CHARLES SCHREINER BOUGHT THTS LAND. HIS SON GUS F. (1866-1962) LATER ACQUIRED THE PROPERTY. IN 1901 GUS AND HIS WIFE HULDAH (RUMMEL) (1872-1943) ERECTED THE FIRST FLOOR OF THIS HOUSE, CALLED "CEDARCREST". °MR GUS" OPERATED SCHREINER LAND AND LP/ESTOCK CO. AND SERVED ON TEXAS GAME, FISH, AND OYSTER COMMISSION. THIS FARM, ACTIVE FOR 60 YEARS, HAD CORN FIELDS, HORSE PASTURES, A GARDEN, FRU[T TREES, STABLES AND A SMOKEHOUSE. WITH THE ADDITION OF A SECOND STORY AND EXTENSIVE REMODELING IN 1916 AND 1919, THE HOUSE BECAME A SHOWPLACE AND CENTER OF SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. (1979) Located on Texas 173 south of Kerrville...now the Riverhill Country Club clubhouse GPS location North 30 Ol 26.7 West 99 OS 05.8 45. SCHREINER COLLEGE (SCHREINER INSTITUTE) KERRVILLE LEADERS BEGAN TO ENVISION A COLLEGE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE 20'~ CENTURY. NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF TEXAS WERE PURSUED FROM 1904, WHEN PLANS WERE MADE FOR AN ANNUAL CAMP MEETING THAT MIGHT ONE DAY EVOLVE INTO A BOYS' SCHOOL. IN 1914, LOCAL BUSINESSMAN CHARLES SCHREINER (1838-1927) ANNOUNCED HIS PLAN TO DONATE 140 ACRES OF LAND AND AT LEAST $100,000 TO THE SYNOD OF TEXAS TO FUND THE CHARLES SCHREINER INSTITUTE FOR BOYS. THE PLAN WAS DELAYED BY WORLD WAR I. FINALLY, ON SEPTEMBER 18,1923, THE SCHOOL'S OPENING CEREMONIES WERE HELD, WITH JAMES J. DELANEY (1879-1959) AS PRESIDENT. NINETY-FIVE STUDENTS WERE ENROLLED THE FIRST YEAR THE SCHOOL STRESSED MILITARY DISCIPLINE AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION AS A BACKDROP FOR GENERAL EDUCATION. IN 1932, GIRLS WERE ADMITTED AS DAY STUDENTS. MANY STUDENTS AND YOUNGER FACULTY LEFT SCHREINER FOR MILITARY SERVICE AND DEFENSE WORK DURING WORLD WAR II, AND A NAVAL FLIGHT SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED AT THE INSTITUTE FOR THE WAR'S DURATION. SIXTY-STX ALUMNI LOST THEIR LIVES IN WORLD WAR II. MILITARY TRAINING BECAME OPTIONAL IN 1957. IN 1971, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES VOTED TO DISCONTINUE MILITARY TRAINING. FEMALE BOARDING STUDENTS WERE ENROLLED, AND THE RECRUITMENT OF MINORITY AND DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS WAS INSTITUTED. THE LAST HIGH SCHOOL CLASS GRADUATED IN 1976. IN 1984 THE SCHOOL BECAME AFOUR-YEAR BACCALAUREATE COLLEGE. SCHREINER COLLEGE CONTINUES TO EVOLVE AS ONE OF TEXAS' LEADING PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS. (1998) Located on Texas 27 (Memorial Blvd) east of downtown Kerrville. Marker located between Dietert Chapel and Logan Library GPS location North 30 01 3.2 West 99 07 53.6 46. SCHUMACHER CROSSING ON THE GUADALUPE RIVER CHRISTIAN SCHUMACHER EMIGRATED WITH HIS FAMILY FROM GERMANY TO TEXAS IN 1845, THE YEAR HE WAS BORN. HE CAME TO KERB COUNTY IN 1880, LATER MARRYING SARA BRAZEAL SUBLETT AND MOVING TO LAND ALONG THE GUADALUPE RIVER, NEAR THE SITE OF AN ANTEBELLUM SAWMILL OPERATION BUILT BY GUSTAV AND FREDRICH TEGENER IN THE t920s, SON JOHN RANDOLPH SCHUMACHER BUILT A SERIES OF DAMS ACROSS THE RIVER, PROVIDING SECURITY FROM RAGING FLOODWATERS FOR A STREAM CROSSING AND NEW ROAD TO HUNT. TODAY, THE DAMS REMAIN AND AN IMPROVED HIGHWAY BRIDGE CROSSES THE STREAM. SCHUMACHER CROSSING IS STILL ENJOYED FOR ITS SCENERY AND ACCESS TO THE RIVER. (2003) Located on Texas 39 1.5 miles east of Hunt GPS location North 30 04 09.8 West 99 19 17.6 47. SITE OF SHERMAN'S MILL A PIONEER KERB COUNTY WATER-POWERED MILL LOCATED NEAR KELLY CREEK-GUADALUPE RIVER CONFLUENCE. IT GROUND CORN, SAWED LUMBER, GINNED COTTON. BU[LT IN 1870s BY JOHN SHERMAN, IT WAS IN USE UNTIL DESTROYED BY FLOOD IN ]932. SHERMAN, HIS WIFE, AND 8 CHILDREN LIVED IN HOUSE STILL STANDING NEARBY. (1972) MARKER SPONSOR: A SHERMAN DESCENDENT, DOME TURK TALLEY Located 3.4 miles west of Ingram on Texas 39 GPS location North 30 04 06.0 W est 99 ] 7 28.8 48. SAINT PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH AIONEER EPISCOPALIANS WORSHIPED AT THE KERB COUNTY COURTHOUSE IN 1881. IN 1884-88, THEY ERECTED A SMALL FRAME GOTHIC CHURCH. THE REV. J.E. HOLE SERVED 1890.91 AS FIRST RESHIENT RECTOR; THE REV. RICHARD GALBRAITH, 1894-1908, AS FIRST PERMANENT RECTOR IN 1908 SAINT PETER'S BECAME A PARISH. THE REV. J.E. ELLIS,1908-13 RECTOR, FOUNDED A BOY SCOUT TROOP HERE, BEFORE SCOUTING HAD ORIGINATED NATIONALLY. THE PRESENT CHURCH WAS BUILT IN 1928. ANNEXES WERE ADDED LATER. THE GREATLY ENLARGED MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES DESCENDENTS OF EARLY COMMUNICANTS. (1977) Located at Me intersection of Main and Tiry Streets GPS location North 30 02 393 West 99 OS 11.4 49. STONELEIGH RANCH MISSOURI NATIVE GEORGE L. LEIGH (d. 1901) MOVED TO KERB COUNTY IN 1878 FOR HEALTH REASONS. HE OPENED A MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT IN CENTER POINT (3.5 MLS) WITH JAMES SELLERS AND LATER SERVED ONE TERM AS COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR. IN 1883 HE PURCHASED A 640-ACRE TRACT HERE. WITH THE HELP OF HIS BROTHER EDWARD, HE ENLARGED THE SITE TO INCLUDE OVER THREE THOUSAND ACRES. HERE LEIGH RAN A DAIRY AND RAISED RACING HORSES. FROM 1936 TO 1943 THE LAND WAS USED AS A GUEST RANCH. NAMED FOR THE ANCESTRAL HOME IN ENGLAND, THE STONELEIGH RANCH REMAINED IN THE LEIGH FAMILY UNTIL 1960. (1980) Located 4 miles north on Stoneleigh Road otf Texas 27 east of Center Point GPS location North 29 5915.0 West 00 01 21.2 50. SUNSET CEMETERY THE EARLIEST MARKED CRAVES IN THIS CEMETERY ARE THOSE OF JAMES AND SUSAN DOWDY'S FOUR CHILDREN. THEY WERE KILLED BY INDIANS IN IS78, SOON AFTER THE FAMILY MIGRATED FROM GOLIAD. HOWEVER, LOCAL TRADITION SAYS THE FIRST INTERMENT IS THAT OF M.B. SHULTS. PLAIN STONES MARK BURIAL SITES OF FOUR BYAS CHILDREN WHO DIED IN THE 1880s TYPHOID EPIDEMIC. EARLY PIONEER H.L. NELSON (1835-1922) WHO ESTABLISHED MOUNTAIN HOME POST OFFICE, IS BURIED HERE. LAND FOR THIS 4-ACRE CEMETERY HAS BEEN ACQUIRED FROM A.E. OEHLER HEHtS, M.D. HENDERSON AND SUNSET SCHOOL WHEN IT WAS CLOSED IN 1953. (1979) Located 9.2 miles northwest of Ingram on Texas 27 GPS location North 30 09 20.5 West 99 21 03.1 51. CAPTAIN JOSEPH A. TIVY IN 1937 JOSEPH A. TPJY (1818-92) AND HIS TWO SISTERS CAME TO TEXAS FROM CANADA. AFTER SERVING AS A TEXAS RANGER, TIVY JOINED HIS SISTERS IN THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH OF 1849. THERE THEY OPERATED A HOTEL AND HE LATER SERVED IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE. AFTER RETURNING TO TEXAS IN THE LATE 1850s, TIVY FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR, ATTAINING THE RANK OF CAPTAIN. A SURVEYOR, RANCHER AND TEXAS LEGISLATOR (1873), HE SERVED AS THE FIRST KERRVILLE MAYOR IN 1889. DURING HIS TERM OF OFFICE HE GAVE LAND FOR THE CITY SCHOOLS. HE AND HIS WIFE ELLA (d. 1885) AND HIS SISTER SUSAN (d. 1901) ARE BURIED ON NEARBY TIVY MOUNTAIN. (1980) Located on Cypress Creek Road inside Loop 534 GPS location North 30 03 13.4 West 99 07 08.7 52. THE ORIGINAL BUILDING OF TIVY HIGH SCHOOL CAPTAIN JOSEPH A. TIVY, A CANADIAN BORN IN 1818, SETTLED IN KERB COUNTY ABOUT 1870. HE SERVED AS KERRVILLE'S FIItST MAYOR AND AS A TEXAS LEGISLATOR HE SURVEYED MOST OF THE KERRVILLE AREA AND GAVE LAND FOR A CITY PARK. IN 1890, HE GAVE 16 AND 2/3 ACRES FOR A SCHOOL ON THIS SITE AND 100 ACRES TO BE SOLD TO BUILD AND FURNISH THE SCHOOL. CLASSES BEGAN OCTOBER 1891. AMONG THE EARLY STUDENTS WAS FLEET ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ. THE NATIVE STONE BUILDING WAS SEVERELY DAMAGED BY FIRE IN 1942 AND THE FACADE STUCCOED. THIS BUILDING HOUSED TIVY HIGH SCHOOL UNTIL 1967. PRESENTED BY THE CLASSES OF 1927 & 1928 (1978) Located at 1009 Barnett Street just off Tivy Street GPS location North 30 02 44.7 West 99 07 57.1 53. TURTLE CREEK SCHOOL AND CEMETERY THIS SCHOOLHOUSE AND NEARBY BURIAL GROUND ORIGINALLY SERVED THE PIONEER SETTLERS OF THE TURTLE CREEK AREA. THE OLDEST MARKED GRAVE IS THAT OF MILES L. DENTON (1857-75). ALSO BURIED IN THE CEMETERY IS SUSAN ELIZABETH BIRD (1866-87), THE WIFE OF J. FISHER BHtD WHO PATENTED THE SURVEY. CONTINUOUSLY USED AS A VOTING PLACE SINCE 1885, THIS PROPERTY WAS OBTAINED BY SCHOOL TRUSTEES IN 1892 THROUGH A LAND TRADE WITH JAMES SPICER. CLASSES WERE HELD HERE UNTIL 1958. AREA RESll)ENTS BOUGHT THE SITE IN 1977 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY. (1950) Located off Texas 16 South on FM 1273 nine miles south of Kerrville GPS location North 29 58 29.1 West 99 13.12.7 54. WHARTON CEMETERY ONE OF THE EARLIEST SETTLERS IN KERB COUNTY, WILLIAM WATSON WHARTON (1799-1871) PURCHASED 640 ACRES WHEN HE CAME HERE IN 1857 WITH H1S WIFE THANKFUL (1803-1885) AND THEIR THREE SONS. THE FAMILY'S CABIN STOOD NEAR THIS CEMETERY. WHARTON'S IS THE OLDEST MARKED GRAVE IN THE PLOT. AMONG OTHER GRAVES ARE THOSE OF HIS WIFE, HIS SONS WILLIAM G'LASPIE (1841- 1919), DEPUTY SHERIFF OF KERB COUNTY FOR OVER 50 YEARS, AND DAVID NEWTON (1846-1938) AND SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN. OTHER PIONEER SETTLERS BURIED HERE INCLUDE MEMBERS OF THE TATUM AND LOVE FAMILIES. WHARTON DESCENDANTS MAINTAIN THIS SITE. (1977) Located on Wharton Road about 4.5 miles northwest of Cegter Point or south of Texas 173 on Wharton Road CPS location North 2958 20.7 West 99 OS 41.6 55. WOOLLS BUILDING ONE OF CENTER POINT'S OLDEST EXISTING COMMERCIAL STRUCTURES, THE WOOLLS BUILDING WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1873-75 TO HOUSE THE MERCANTILE BUSINESS OF GEORGE W. WOOLLS (D. 1876). LOCAL CONTRACTOR AND STONEMASON SAM H. WELLBORN BUILT IT OF LIMESTONE WITH AFULL-WIDTH BALCONY AND EXTERIOR STAHICASE. FOR MOST OF ITS HISTORY, THE FHiST FLOOR OF THE WOOLLS BUILDING HOUSED RETAIL BUSINESSES, WITH FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS MEETING ON THE UPPER STORY. THE RISING STAR MASONIC LODGE, WHICH INCLUDED A NUMBER OF TEXAS RANGERS AMONG ITS MEMBERSHIP, MET HERE FROM 1875 UNTIL 1900. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK-2001 Located at 318 San Antonio Street in downtown Center Point GPS location North 29 56 41.5 West 99 02 14.6 56. Y.O. RANCH CHARLES ARMAND SCHREINER (1838-1927), A NATIVE OF ALSACE-LORRAINE, IMMIGRATED TO TEXAS WITH HIS FAMILY IN 1852. HE JOINED THE TEXAS RANGERS AT AGE FIFTEEN, AND IN 1857 ENTERED THE CATTLE BUSINESS AT TURTLE CREEK IN KERB COUNTY. HE LEFT TO SERVE IN THE THIRD TEXAS INFANTRY DURING THE CIVIL WAR, AND RETURNED TO KERB COUNTY IN 1865. MOVING TO KERRVILLE IN 1869, HE OPENED A SUCCESSFUL MERCANTILE BUSINESS. THE THREAT OF INDIAN RAIDS IN THE AREA SOON PROMOTED THE FORMATION OF THE KERRVILLE MOUNTED RIFLES, AND SCHREINER WAS APPOINTED CAPTAIN BY GOVERNOR RICHARD COKE IN 1875. IN 1880 HE BOUGHT THE TAYLOR-CLEMENTS RANCH AND ITS Y.O. BRAND. TEXAS LONGHORN CATTLE BECAME CAPTAIN SCHREINER'S PRIMARY CONCERN, AND OVER 300,000 HEAD WERE DRIVEN FROM THIS AREA TO KANSAS RAILHEADS. BECAUSE OF SCHREINER'S VENTURE IN RAISING SHEEP AND GOATS, KERRVILLE WAS KNOWN AS THE "MOHAHt CENTER OF THE WORLD". THE LAST CATTLE DRIVE FROM THE RANCH WAS HELD IN 1941, THE STOCK BEING MOVED TO KERRVILLE FOR SHIPMENT TO FORT WORTH. THE Y.O. RANCH HAS ALSO BECOME KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD FOR ITS TEXAS LONGHORN CATTLE AND ITS NATIVE AND EXOTIC WILDLIFE CONSERVATION PROGRAMS. TEXAS SESQUICENTENNL4L 1836-1986 Located oo Texas 41 about 15 miles west of Mountain Home GPS location North 30 07 13.6 West 99 36 42.9 57. SITE OF ZANZENBERG HOME OF DR CHARLES DE GANAHL (1824-1883) A SIGNER OF THE TEXAS ARTICLES OF SECESSION IN 1861 AND ARMY SURGEON FOR THE CONFEDERATE STATE OF AMERICA. THE HOME WAS ERECTED IN 1856 AND NAMED AFTER DR GANAHL'S ANCESTRAL HOME IN THE AUSTRIAN TYROL OF EUROPE. HERE THE FIRST POST OFFICE IN KERB COUNTY WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1857 WITH HIS WIFE VIRGINIA (1834-1895) AS THE FllIST POSTMASTER ..-. (1969) Located east of Center Point on Texas 27 GPS location North 29 7 01.3 West 00 Ol 47.2 58. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH THIS CONGREGATION HAS ROOTS IN WORSHIP SERVICES CONDUCTED IN FAMILY HOMES AS EARLY AS 1898 AND WAS ORGANIZED IN 1901 WITH SEVEN CHARTER FAMILIES. THE REV. KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH HANS ERNST ERMISCH, WHO ALSO ASSISTED LUTHERAN PARISHES IN NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES, WAS PASTOR FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS. THE CONGREGATION WORSHIPED IN KERRVILLE'S UNION CHURCH UNTIL A SANCTUARY WAS BUILT IN 1916 ON THIS SITE. THROUGH ITS PROGRAMS OF OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE, ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH REMAINS A SIGNIFICANT PART OF KERRVILLE'S SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS HERITAGE. (2001) Located at 624 Barnett Street at the corner of Sidney Baker North GPS location North 30 03 03.0 West 99 08 13.1 NO MARKERS LOUIS SCHREINER HOME KNOWN AS "TULAHTEKA" THE HOME IS AN EXAMPLE OF GEORGIAN REVIVAL STYLE. LOUIS SCHREINER A WEALTHY BANKER AND MEMBER OFWELL-KNOWN PIONEER KERR COUNTY FAMILY, SPARED NO EXPENSE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HOME. THE BUILDING IS ONE OF FOUR KERB COUNTY BUILDINGS LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES. IT PRESENTLY HOUSES THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE L.D. BRINKMAN CORPORATION. NO MARKER OR N.R PLAQUE IS CURRENTLY ON THE BUILDING. Located on Texas 16 South (Sidney Baker) just south of River Hills Mall GPS location (at the gate) North 30 02 09.7 West 99 OH 39.4 MASONIC BUILDING...DOWNTOWN ORIGINAL SITE OF THE KERRVILLE MASONIC LODGE N697 A.F. & A.M. THE UPSTAIRS SPACE WAS USED BY THE LODGE UNTIL 1927. THE DOWNSTAlltS WAS THE POST OFFICE UNTIL 1916. FROM 1916 TO 1926 WAS A GROCERY STORE. NOW USED FOR RETAIL SPACE. ONE OF THE FIVE KERRVILLE STRUCTURES ON THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF HISTORIC PLACES. NO MARKER OR N.R. PLAQUE CURRENTLY ON THE BUILDING. MARKERS IN PROCESS OF BEING ORDERED: STARKEY CEMETERY...located at 1180 Junction Hwy (Texas 27) DIVIDE SCAOOL...located 16.5 miles west of Mountain Home on Texas 41 TEXAS LIONS CAMP...located three miles east of the Kerr County Courthouse on Texas 27 East. Marker placement will be inside the camp entrance. ,p','~ia-.n / i k v ,:. ~,~. i ~. ~y . ~; ~ ~~ ~~.~~ . ~`I ~' 'dims.„ "' .., ,,. "' ~~: .,.., r4~~ ~~, ,~~. ~+ r~: ,~. ; . S, ~~;:Y1 ..~_ ~ ,, .,, ~» ~ , ~. J M~~~ 4 N . ~, ~'~, :e ;~ ~;