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| The Central Texas region, including Kendall County, has supported human habitation
for several thousand years. Archeological evidence suggests that hunting and gathering peoples established themselves
in the area as early as 10,000 years ago. Lipan Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches became the dominant tribes in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and were present when Germans began arriving in the 1840s. |
| The Meusebach-Comanche Treaty, signed in 1847, was to permit the settlers to enter
Indian territory to settle and the Indians to enter the settlements. German immigrants established Sisterdale in
1847, Tusculum (Boerne) in 1849, Curry's Creek in 1850, and Comfort in 1854. Although relations between settlers
and Indians were fairly sympathetic, small groups of Indians did make frequent raids on farms in the area, and
in some instances killed settlers and stole children. The threat of raids continued through the mid-1870s but lessened
as the frontier was pushed farther west. |
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Thirty-six whites were killed and sixty wounded in the battle; Indian casualties
totaled eleven dead and thirty-one wounded. The area had been part of the Fisher-Miller Land Grant of 1843, but
no settlements were established in what is now Irion County until the late 1870s, after the Indian threat had been
eliminated. In 1874 the area became part of Tom Green County, which was formed that year from 12,500 square miles
taken from Bexar County. G. W. Wood, Richard F. Tankersley, Bruce McCain, and others established cattle ranches
in the area.
Most of the Kendall County area was part of the Bexar County established by the Republic of Texas in 1836; it later
became part of Kerr County, which was separated from Bexar in 1856. Comfort served as county seat of Kerr County
for two years before Kendall County was formed. In 1859 residents of Boerne and Sisterdale petitioned the legislature
for a new county; the legislature granted the petition in 1862, and the new county, carved from Kerr and Blanco
counties, was named in honor of George Wilkins Kendall. |
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