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Thuja occidentalis, also known as northern white-cedar, [1] eastern white-cedar, [2] or arborvitae, [2] [3] is an evergreen coniferous tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is native to eastern Canada and much of the north-central and northeastern United States. [3] [4] It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant.
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.
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]
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]
Schreiner became a wealthy rancher, merchant and philanthropist in Kerrville. [6] Schreiner commissioned San Antonio architect Alfred Giles to design the mansion in 1879. The original six-bedroom, two-story house was the first limestone building in Kerr County. In 1895, Schreiner had Giles add a more elaborate porch.
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).
Kerrville-Schreiner Park is a developed recreational area on the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, United States. Originally, a Texas state park developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) between 1935 and 1937, the state transferred the park to the City of Kerrville in 2004.
Kerrville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Kerrville, in Kerr County, Texas. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 1.7 acres (0.69 ha), and as 2014 had 515 interments.