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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B3F_divide-school_Mountain-Home-TX.html
The first school classes held in this vicinity began in 1882, in the home of a hired teacher. The only two area families with children paid the instructor's salary. In 1893, William and Lou Wharton provided land for a one-room schoolhouse to meet …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B3E_y-o-ranch_Mountain-Home-TX.html
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 1856 entered the cattle business at Turtle Creek in Kerr County. He left to serve in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23O3_early-settlers-of-kerr-county_Kerrville-TX.html
The earliest permanent settler at this point on the Guadalupe was Joshua D. Brown (1816-74), a native of Kentucky who came to Texas in 1830 and settled at Gonzales near a fellow Kentuckian, James Kerr, surveyor and resident manager of Green DeWitt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23O2_kerr-county_Kerrville-TX.html
Formed from Bexar County
Created January 26, 1856
Organized March 22, 1856
Named in honor of
James Kerr, 1790-1850
the first American settler on
the Guadalupe River. General
manager of DeWitt's Colony
signer of the Texas Declaration
o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23O1_james-kerr_Kerrville-TX.html
Kentucky native James Kerr, the 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 married Angeline Caldwell in 1818 and served in the Missouri Senate and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23NS_center-point-cemetery_Center-Point-TX.html
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 Austr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23NR_center-point-texas_Center-Point-TX.html
1852, a settlement began along the Guadalupe River half way between Kerryville and Comfort that became known as Center Point. 1856, residents met here to petition the state for a new county, then held the 1st meeting to organize the county governm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23NQ_camp-verde-texas_Center-Point-TX.html
1856, Camp Verde was established as a military post to suppress Indian attacks on settlers. As suggested by Jefferson Davis, camels were brought to the camp as an experiment in providing transportation of troops and equipment. The experiment was i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23NP_apelt-armadillo-farm_Comfort-TX.html
In the late 1890s, Charles Apelt (1862-1944) opened a unique commercial enterprise at this site.
Apelt, a German immigrant, came to Comfort in 1887 and worked as a farmer. Here he encountered the armadillo, an animal native to the Americas, and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RE3_penateka-comanches_Center-Point-TX.html
The Penateka, or "honey eaters," were the southernmost band of Comanches; their range extended from the Edwards Plateau to the beginnings of central Texas rivers. The nomadic Comanches followed buffalo as they migrated, depending on the …