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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
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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
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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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