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On November 25, 1859, the first post office was established and called Zanzenberg after the ancestral home of the town founder Charles Ganahl. Originally opened in the home of Ganahl, the post office stayed there until 1872, when it was moved to the south side of the Guadalupe River , where a sizable community was being built.
Kerr County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 52,598. [1] Its county seat is Kerrville. [2] The county was named by Joshua D. Brown for his fellow Kentucky native, James Kerr, a congressman of the Republic of Texas.
Cemetery with historical marker. Ingram is located in eastern Kerr County at (30.076903, –99.237367), [6] on the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill CountryIt is the first city the Guadalupe River passes through downstream from its source near Hunt.
Kerrville c. 1900. Kerrville is a city in Texas, and the county seat of Kerr County, Texas, United States. [4] The population of Kerrville was 24,278 at the 2020 census. [5] Kerrville is named after James Kerr, a major in the Texas Revolution, and friend of settler-founder Joshua Brown, who settled in the area to start a shingle-making camp. [6]
The Hunt Store is a quaint local convenience store and gas station sitting right on Highway 39 and held close to the heart of locals. While the official population of Hunt is 1,332 more than 3,000 campers and family members spend their summer there.
The first Mountain Home post office was established in 1879, [6] with Hiram L Nelson as the first Postmaster. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Fisheries Research Station [7] opened on Highway 27 in 1925. The Texas Catholic Boys Camp [8] was started in Mountain Home in 1951 by the Society of Mary.
On April 6, 1984, more than 30 federal, state and local lawmen raided a 3,500-acre (14 km 2) ranch near the Texas Hill Country town of Mountain Home. The officers were responding to reports that workers on the ranch, kidnapped from Interstate 10, [1] were being forced to work and that at least one worker had died and was cremated on the premises. [2]
Kerrville Municipal Airport covers 528 acres (214 ha) at an elevation of 1,617 feet (493 m). It has two asphalt runways: 12/30 is 6,004 by 100 feet (1,830 x 30 m) and 3/21 is 3,597 by 58 feet (1,096 x 18 m).