On Ranch Road 335, 7 miles north of Texas Highway 55, on the right when traveling south.
One of the earliest settlers of this area was Henry Wells (1850-1923), who first came to the Nueces Canyon in 1866. He founded the town of Bullhead in 1873. The name was changed to Vance in the mid-1880s.
In 1875 a guest in the home of the . . . — — Map (db m24485) HM
On Nueces Street (State Highway 55) south of 6th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Texas was important in the career of aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-75). When he bought his first World War I surplus Jenny in Georgia, he flew it to Texarkana in 1923, so he could say he had flown in Texas -- the ambition . . . — — Map (db m161274) HM
On Nueces Street (State Highway 55) 0.3 miles north of West 7th Street, on the left when traveling north.
The Franciscan mission of San Lorenzo represents one of the last attempts to convert the Lipan Apache (or Ndé as they refer to themselves) in Spanish Texas. The missionaries hoped to convert the Lipan through the establishment of two missions within . . . — — Map (db m237272) HM
On North Nueces Street (State Highway 55) 0.2 miles north of East 7th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Buried here, 3/10 mi. from Camp Wood. A 29-year-old Harrison Countian, symbolizes Texans who died for the Confederacy in the Arizona-New Mexico campaign. Served from April 19,1861, till death June 16, in W.P. Lane Rangers in second front stretched . . . — — Map (db m175831) HM
On Nueces Street (State Highway 55) 0.3 miles north of West 7th Street, on the left when traveling north.
The bastion was one of the most important buildings at the mission. Built from adobe blocks, this defensive structure was strategically located along the mission's southwest corner. The bastion protected the south and west walls and was manned by . . . — — Map (db m237278) HM
On Nueces Street (State Highway 55) 0.3 miles north of West 7th Street, on the left when traveling north.
The granary primarily served as a building for storing supplies. The floor of the structure is made of stone and the walls consisted of double rows of adobe brick. Outside the walls an adobe floor helped keep water out of the building. The careful . . . — — Map (db m237281) HM
Spanish soldiers and their families lived in adobe structures that lined the north and west walls. The Lipan also occupied some of the buildings while others camped outside the compound. For the Lipan, the mission served as a temporary refuge or . . . — — Map (db m237279) HM
Established May 20, 1857, as a means of preventing Indian raids on the San Antonio—El Paso route and the Rio Grande Valley • Abandoned March 15th, 1861, when Federal troops were withdrawn from Texas. — — Map (db m24382) HM
On Nueces Street (State Highway 55) 0.3 miles north of West 7th Street, on the left when traveling north.
The church was the center of mission life. Made from adobe, the church had interior plastered walls painted white with red designs. An adobe floor and roof constructed of vigas (heavy wooden beams) completed the church's construction. The buildings . . . — — Map (db m237276) HM
Near 6th Street (Ranch to Market Road 337) at Evergreen Street.
A victim of the last Indian raid in Frio Canyon, April 19, 1881. Mother of three small children, "Kate" McLauren was home with them and a neighbor boy, Allen Lease, when a Lipan Apache band started to plunder their house. Although shot with a . . . — — Map (db m175839) HM
On Market Street (U.S. 83) south of Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
Tennessee native John Leakey (1824-1900) came to Texas in 1847, settling for a time in Henderson County where he was a brickmason and rancher. He and his wife Nancy (Patterson) moved to Uvalde County in 1852 near present day Sabinal. A desire to . . . — — Map (db m111322) HM
On 6th Street (Ranch to Market Road 337E) at School Street, on the right when traveling east on 6th Street.
Originally known as the Floral Cemetery and serving an earlier community by that name, this cemetery dates to at least 1881. Land for the graveyard was sold by John and Nancy Leakey for one dollar and a cemetery plot.
The oldest documented . . . — — Map (db m111323) HM
On U.S. 83 at 3rd Street, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 83.
Settlers began to arrive in the Frio Canyon in the mid-nineteenth century, and the population increased dramatically by the 1880s. Many of these settlers wanted a place to worship together as the Church of Christ. In the early years, Christians . . . — — Map (db m161278) HM
On Market Street at 1st Street, on the left when traveling north on Market Street.
By establishing a home and sawmill nearby in 1856 John and Nancy Leakey became the first to settle in the Frio River Canyon area. This congregation traces its origin to worship services held in the Leakey home by Methodist circuit riding Minister H. . . . — — Map (db m161277) HM
Settlers arrived in the Leakey area, then part of Bandera County, in the mid-1850s. Many educated their children in their own homes, and early schoolhouses also existed near the John and Nancy Leakey home and at Brooks Springs. In 1883, the Leakeys . . . — — Map (db m161275) HM
On 4th Street east of Market Street (U.S. 83), on the right when traveling west.
The location of Real County lies at the southern edge of the Edwards Plateau along the Balcones Escarpment, an area of rugged mountains and canyons named for the Frio, Sabinal and Nueces Rivers. The county line between Edwards County and Bandera . . . — — Map (db m111321) HM
On 4th Street at Market Street (U.S. 83), on the right when traveling west on 4th Street.
Located on the Edwards Plateau, Real County is in an area of rolling terrain broken by the canyons of the Frio River. Because of raids by Comanche, Apache, and Lipan Apache Indians, white settlement was hindered until after 1881. Mission San . . . — — Map (db m240788) HM
On 4th Street east of Market Street (U.S. 83), on the right when traveling west.
Leakey was the county seat of Edwards County from 1883 to 1891 when a vote moved the seat to Rocksprings. Real County, named for businessman and State Senator Julius Real, was organized from parts of Edwards, Kerr and Bandera counties in April 1913. . . . — — Map (db m111300) HM
On Ranch Road 336 north of McClure Crossing, on the right when traveling north.
On April 19, 1881, Catherine "Kate" Ringer McLaurin (Sometimes McLauren) was with her three small children and 14-year old Allen Lease in the garden when a band of Lipan Apaches started to plunder her home. Lease, thinking there were pigs in the . . . — — Map (db m111361) HM
On Ranch to Market Road 1120 at Ranch to Market Road 2748, on the right when traveling east on Highway 1120.
Dug in 1868, in pick-and-shovel operation, by Lombardy Irrigation Company, whose officers were N.M.C. Patterson, W.F. Smith and T. Watkins.
Besides channeling water to irrigate over 800 acres, the 2-mile ditch furnished power for a cotton gin . . . — — Map (db m189338) HM
