Historical Marker

Old Garza Home

Historical marker location:
602 E. Santa Clara St., Hebbronville, Texas
( 602 E. Santa Clara Street, Hebbronville)
Marker installed: 1962

Don Bonifacia Garza built (1893) and owned this dwelling (with adobe and grass roof) and distributed water from here in a two-wheel cart drawn by mule, whose customary greetings was poetry.

Home of several pioneer families until 1960, then the house for 20 years of school teacher Miss Emilia Davila of the only private Spanish school in south Jim Hogg County.