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A Brief History of Bandera, Texas
Bandera is on State Highway 16 fifty
miles northwest of San Antonio in east central Bandera
County. A townsite plat for the settlement, designated
county seat at the formation of Bandera County in 1856,
was filed with the first county commissioners' court that
year by John James, Charles DeMontel,qqv
and John Herndon. The site, on a cypress-lined bend of the
Medina River, had been occupied by Indians, then by white
campers making shingles. The town and county were named
for nearby Bandera Pass.qv
The founders formed a partnership in 1853 to build a town
and water-powered lumber mill. They recruited immigrant
workers from Upper Silesia by way of the Polish colony in
Karnes County (see POLES). These workers arrived in
1855, and each family received purchase rights to town
lots and farmland.
The first development in the area occurred in 1852 when Fort Phantom Hill was established a few miles northeast of the future location of the city. This Army post was one of a series of garrisons erected to protect the white settlements from Indians. It was also an overnight stop on the overland mail route that followed the Butterfield Trail. The Fort was in use for only three years before the Army abandoned it.
The presence of the United States Cavalry at Camp Verdeqv
after 1856 encouraged increased activity and settlement.
Bandera served the needs of the military and of settlers
who took up small holdings in the area. After the Civil
Warqv the town boomed as
a staging area for cattle drives up the Western Trail.qv
Farm boys became cowboys. Ranchers built holding pens and
signed on as trail bosses. Storekeepers contracted as
outfitters. Cotton was a commercial crop during this
period. An ornate courthouse begun in 1890 announced
prosperity from the town square. For local stockraisers,
sheep and goats proved more profitable on the shallow
limestone soil than cattle, but not until 1920 did the
Bandera County Ranchers and Farmers Association organize
cooperative storage and marketing of wool and mohair.
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