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Kerrville's Tulahteka: Just a simple starter home
Tulahteka, built in the early 1920s as a home for Louis and Mae Schreiner. Photo from 2018.Until recently it was a corporate headquarters.Click on any image to enlarge.Several kind readers have...
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Ghost Stories of Kerr County
Ghostly shingle maker, splitting a cypress log.Click on any image below to enlarge.Since next Thursday is Halloween, I thought I'd share some ghost stories from my files:Over the years I have heard...
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Florence Butt tells her story: the very first H-E-B
Drawing of the new H-E-B grocery store being built in Kerrville, to be completed in 2020.Something special is highlighted above: the facade of the first store building.Click on any image below to...
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History at the corner of Kerrville's Main and Sidney Baker streets
The Barker Building, 1950s. Later this building was called the Kellogg Building.This corner is currently being worked by earth-moving machines.Click on any image to enlarge.Several kind readers,...
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A huge hotel in downtown Kerrville
Kerrville's Blue Bonnet Hotel, at the south corner of Water and Earl Garrett Streets,as it appeared in 1927, when it only had five stories.Click on any image below to enlarge.I read a news item here...
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Five fun activities to do with the kids this Thanksgiving holiday
Stonehenge at the Hill Country Arts Foundation in Ingram, Texas.Children will love it, as a place to play hide-and-seek.Click any image below to enlarge.Thanksgiving– my favorite holiday, a holiday...
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Native American Pictographs in Kerr County
A portion of the Native American Pictographs at theHatfield Pictograph Shelter, Kerr County.Click on image to enlarge.There are faint red, black and yellow marks on a limestone bluff in the western...
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Review: "Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas," by Stephen Harrigan
Reading "Big Wonderful Thing," a new history of Texas by Stephen Harrigan,at my favorite lunchtime reading spot, the downtown pavilion overlooking Louise Hays Park and the Guadalupe River.If you...
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Ancient things you can find in Kerr County.
A relic from 66 - 145 million years ago,found in Kerr County last week.Time has been on my mind this week.Last week I wrote about the Hatfield Pictograph Rock Shelter, an archeological site in the...
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Ladies on Horseback Sought Christmas Gift for Kerrville.
The restored Union Church, on the Schreiner University Campus, after a snowfall, 2003History can be made even during the busy holiday season, as I found in my dusty files:Not many know that churches in...
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"A small beginning," exactly 150 years ago this Tuesday
Charles Schreiner's original store in downtown Kerrville,opened on Christmas Eve, 1869. Illustration by Harold B. Hugbee.Click on any image to enlarge.This coming Tuesday, Christmas Eve, will be...
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Squirrel and Chicken Barbecue
The St. Charles Hotel, Kerrville, in the late 1920s.Click on any image to enlarge.On Christmas Eve, my new friend Louis Amestoy, who is managing editor of this newspaper, wrote a column on several...
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The Top 10 Kerr History Stories of 2019
Here are the top 10 stories of 2019, as measured by pageviews of the stories here on the blog:10."History at the corner of Kerrville's Main and Sidney Baker streets," published in November....
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What happened to the Camp Verde camels? Here's where 14 ended up.
A camel in Central Park, New York, New York, in the late 1860s. (Wikimedia Commons.)Click on any image below to enlarge.Shortly before Thanksgiving my friend Michael Bowlin, who has been writing about...
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Kerr County Schools Remembered
Inside the one-room Turtle Creek School, Kerr County, taken many years ago.Click on any image to enlarge.This past week I attended a briefing about the progress being made in the construction of the...
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A Museum for the Texas Hill Country
The home of Aime Charles and Myrta Zoe Schreiner, as it appeared in August, 2018.Click on any image below to enlarge.This week, with some fanfare, the City of Kerrville, in a joint workshop with the...
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Living the History of the Doyle School
Kerrville's Doyle School, May 1947Click on any image to enlargeLast Saturday, February 1, at 5 p.m., a unique celebration took place at the Doyle School Community Center, 110 West Barnett in Kerrville....
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Captured by a band of Comanche raiders near Center Point around 1870
One of the history resources I’ve really enjoyed exploring are the oral histories recorded and preserved by members of the Kerr County Historical Commission. (An oral history is basically a structured...
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One of Kerrville's communities within the community
The Famous Door Cafe historical marker; approved 2012, dedicated in 2015.Click on any image to enlarge.Kerrville, like most rural towns in the Texas Hill Country, is a collection of communities,...
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Houses of Faith in the Doyle School Neighborhood
Mount Olive Baptist Church and Barnett Chapel United Methodist Church,the main churches in the Doyle School neighborhood, as they appeared in February 2020.Click on any image to enlarge.The...
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