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An immigrant who helped design old Kerrville
Alfred Giles, architect, who designed hundreds of buildingsin Texas and northern Mexico, including several in Kerrville.Click on any image below to enlarge.You might be surprised to learn an immigrant...
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Texas Hill Country Freighters of the 1800s
Freight wagons heading west from Kerrville, 1905.This photo was taken below what is today Kerrville's Riverside Nature Center,at the confluence of Town Creek and the Guadalupe River.Click on any image...
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Coast to Coast, and right through Kerr County
Crews at work on IH10 in 1967, near the intersection of SH16.Click on any image to enlarge.While going through my collection of historic Kerr County photographs this week, I found some negatives which...
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Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital Opened 70 Years Ago This Week
Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital, Kerrville, Texas,opened July 3, 1949.Click on any image below to enlarge.There have been many Big Days in our community.October 6, 1887 was a Big Day -- the first train...
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Remembering Lee Wallace, who led Kerr County
Lee Wallace, Kerr County Judge in the early years of the 20th century, at theKerr County Courthouse, January, 1929.Image courtesy of the Hearne Family.Click on any image to enlargeToday there are few...
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A glimpse of Kerrville in 1881
"On the road to Kerrville," from sketches by L. W. MacDonald published May 28, 1881 in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper."Click on any image to enlargeYears ago a kind friend gave me a framed set...
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A federal investment in downtown Kerrville
U. S. Post Office under construction in downtown Kerrville, 1936,at the corner of Earl Garrett and Main Streets.Photos from the collection of Lanza Teague.Click on any image to enlarge.The federal...
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Fuzzy turns 100 years old
Francis "Fuzzy" Swayze, in 2011, standing in front of his high school class photos,Tivy class of 1938. You can see him on the 2nd row, 4th from left.Click on any image to enlarge.I don't remember a...
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In Living Color: the 1956 Kerr County Centennial Parade
Kerrville Jaycee's Rodeo float, Kerr County Centennial parade, April, 1956.These color photographs were taken by Gene Stover, and shared here by his daughter, Jeannie Berger.Click on any image to...
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80 year old Kerr scrapbook comes back home
Pages from Loretta Stehling's 1938-39 Schreiner Institute scrapbook.Click on any image to enlarge.Several weeks ago a kind person in Oakland, California, contacted me via email, saying he’d purchased...
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The story of Kerrville's Arcadia Theater
The Arcadia Theater, 1920s, in the 700 block of Water Street, downtown Kerrville.With the Arcadia Theater in the news recently, I thought it might be useful to share the old girl's history. Here's the...
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The Marrying JP, and the Kerr County Election of 1900
Portrait of man on Main Street, Kerrville, around 1905, by J. E. Grinstead.I believe he is Hugh Turner, Justice of the Peace, Kerrville precinct.Click on any image to enlarge.At the turn of the last...
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A journey to Texas in the mid-1850s
Frederick Law Olmsted. Together with his brother John Hull Olmsted, he explored Texas in the years just before the Civil War, including a visit to nearby Sisterdale, Texas, in today's Kendall...
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The last 19th-century church building leaves Kerrville's Jefferson Street.
First Presbyterian Church, as it appeared in 1918, at the cornerof Earl Garrett and Jefferson Streets.Click on any image below to enlarge.There was a time when Kerrville's Jefferson Street had a...
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See some of the historic Kerr photos found in an old Army foot locker.
New Pop Up Museum Display at Pint & Plow Brewing Company332 Clay Street, KerrvilleMy patient friends at Pint & Plow let me install a new display as part of my "Pop Up Museum" series, which is...
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Exploring Center Point
Center Point Postcard, probably from the turn of the last century.Click on any image to enlarge.Last weekend I hopped in my truck to explore parts of the county I don't get to visit very often,...
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Kerrville's Louise Hays Park: Built in One Day
Site of Louise Hays Park, Kerrville, 1950, before construction.Images courtesy Hays family and the City of Kerrville.Click on any image to enlarge.I received a nice letter last week from the...
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Mystery Kerrville photo: What's missing in this aerial photograph?
What's missing in this photo?Photo by Francis "Fuzzy" Swayze, probably in the 1960s.Click on any image to enlarge.A photograph loaned to me this week by the Lehmann family was intriguing for what it...
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Passenger rail service between Kerrville and San Antonio, 1923
Passenger rail service between Kerrville and San Antonio, 1923.This rail car was self-propelled, like a bus. The bridge still stands downstream from Comfort.Click any image to enlarge.In October,...
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Book Review: The Essential J. Frank Dobie
The Essential J. Frank Dobie, edited by Steven L Davis.Wolfmueller's Books is hosting a book signing Thursday October 17 from 4 - 6 pm,at 229 Earl Garrett Street, in downtown Kerrville.This past week I...
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