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A Kerrville love story, written in stone, in the form of a cottage
The Nellie Holdsworth Memorial Cottage, once part of the Westminster Encampment, Kerrville.Click on any image to enlarge.The small cottage stands on the western edge of the Schreiner University campus,...
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What Lies Beneath (an update on a Kerr County history mystery)
Original Nimitz Lake dam, under construction, circa 1980.Click on any image to enlarge.Often, as I travel home from work on these hot days, I’ll see folks playing in the Guadalupe River at the dam...
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July 4, 1936: A busy day in Kerr County, eighty-five years ago
Advertisement, Kerrville Times, July 2, 1936.Don't judge: typos happen.Click on any image to enlarge.For many years Kerr County celebrated July Fourth with a big parade and a rodeo. The rodeo, which...
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Freed from school, the Tivy Class of 1916 gets out of town
An unexpected picnic of Tivy Seniors -- Spring 1916.Click on any image to enlargeGentle Reader, this might surprise you: while I like historic Kerr County photographs, I like scrapbooks and journals...
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Time Travel to Downtown Kerrville, on a 40-year Loop
[Author's note: I've been busy on other projects, and took a break from this blog for about two months. My apologies. I'll try to do better in the future. JRHJr]After telescopes were invented, and...
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Solved: The Case of Kerrville's Missing Mill
All that remains of the missing mill.Twice this year, I’ve written here about my search for an 1860s water-powered mill which once stood beside the Guadalupe River “2 miles above Kerrville.” Though I...
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Five Million for Kerr County History
Big things are happening at the A. C. & Myrta Schreiner homeon Water Street in downtown Kerrville.I’ve been about to bust – keeping a secret. Finally, the news is public, and I can share it here.As...
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For Rosalie, coming to Texas was an adventure
Sampler, Rosalie Dietert, possibly 1840s.Click on any image to enlarge.Almost all of us here descend from immigrants; even with Native American ancestors, if you go back in time far enough, the theory...
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The airline flying out of Kerrville's Louis Schreiner Field, 1950s
Trans-Texas Airways plane, 1950s.Click on any image to enlarge.Among the many treasures recently given to me recently by Sandy and Jon Wolfmueller was a small printed program for the inauguration of a...
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Kerr County, 1893: sleuthing for a decade
Vacation photo album, 1893,which includes images of Kerrville.Photos courtesy of Yale University Libraries.In the summer of 2010, my long-time friend Lanza Teague sent me an email about an interesting...
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Kerrville's Tivy Class of 1914 -- in their own words
The Tivy High School Class of 1914.Click on either image to enlarge.As much as I love old Kerr County photographs, I have a particular fondness for other historical items – especially printed ephemera...
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Top Ten Kerr County History Stories of 2021
Ingram Dam, 1968. Click on any image below to enlarge.2021, what a year. It was the first year since I began writing this column, back in 1994, that I missed a deadline. Two, in fact, both while I was...
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A Kerrville mystery solved by Orbicular and Pepper Box
Group photo, West Texas Fairgrounds, date -- well, that was a mystery.Click on any image to enlarge.I stumbled upon a clue this week which solved a mystery involving a photograph in my collection, a...
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Shopping at Kerrville's 'Charles Schreiner Company,' around 1900
Charles Schreiner Company, around 1900This store stood at the corner of Water and Earl Garrett Streets.Click on any image to enlargeThere are some folks too young to remember shopping in a general...
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Saying goodbye to Helen Eisaman
Helen Loree Dew Eisaman, 1940-2022Helen Eisaman, who taught English at Tivy High School for over 30 years, passed away this week. I was a student in her class during the 1976-77 school year, when she...
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Remembering the Kerrville Mountain Sun and the Salter Family
The 700 Block of Water Street, downtown Kerrville, 1930s.The Kerrville Mountain Sun was about halfway between the Arcadia and Schreiner Bank.In the 1960s, when I was a boy, there were two newspapers in...
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Kerr County was an important part of Cattle Drives in the 1870s
Movie Still from the Paramount film "North of 36," which came out in 1926.It was shot in Fort Bend County, Texas, on the Blakely Ranch.Thanks to eagle-eyed reader Nancy Zimmerman for the tip.Though we...
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Charles Schreiner, of Kerrville, had an interesting role in the trail drives...
A photo titled "Schreiner and Lytle Herd, 1880," posted on the blog of my friend Deborah Gaudier.The photo was taken near Doan's Store and crossing.In 1884, Ike T. Pryor, a successful transportation...
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The End of the Cattle Trailing industry in Texas
Illustrations showing cattle drives near Kerrville,Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.The conditions which created the need for trail driving cattle to market were disappearing by 1887. Open ranges...
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A Kerrville magazine from 1920: get outside and explore Kerr County
Image, Grinstead's Magazine, June 1920.Click on any image to enlarge.Have you ever wondered what life in Kerr County was like 100 years ago?Fortunately for us there is a publication which can take us...
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