Bexar County, Texas

Alamo Methodist Church Alamo National Bank Building Alamo National Bank Building Alamo Plaza Historic District Alamo Portland and Roman Cement Works Alamo Stadium and Gymnasium Alamo, The Aue Stagecoach Inn Aztec Theater Barnes-Laird House Barr Building Base Administration Building Bexar County Courthouse Blue Star Street Industrial Historic District Bonham, James Butler, Elementary School Brackenridge Park Brady Building-Empire Theater Brooke Army Medical Center Buckeye Park Gate Builders Exchange Building Bungalow Colony Historic District Burns Building Bushnell Calcasieu Building Carver, George Washington, Library and Auditorium Central Trust Company Building Chinese Sunken Garden Gate Church of Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria y Guadalupe City of San Antonio Municipal Auditorium City Public Service Company Building Clegg, L. B., House Dionicio Rodriguez Bridge in Brackenridge Park Elmendorf, Emil, House Espada Aqueduct Fairmount Hotel, The Fence at Alamo Cement Company First National Bank of San Antonio Floore Country Store Fort Sam Houston Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Fountain at Alamo Cement Company Fourth Ward School Franklin, Thomas H., House Friedrich Complex Garcia-Garza House Goad Motor Company Building Green, Robert B., Memorial Hospital Guenther, Carl Hilmar, House Gunter Hotel Halff, A. H., House Hangar 9 Harris, Ethel Wilson, House Harrison, John S., House Havana, The Hays Street Bridge Heidemann Ranch Heidgen, Johann and Anna, House Heimann Building Herrera Ranch Huebner-Onion Homestead and Stagecoach Stop International & Great Northern Railroad Passenger Station Jacala Restaurant Kelly Field Historic District King William Historic District Krause House La Villita Historic District Lavaca Historic District Lee, Robert E., Hotel Lerma's Nite Club Light House Livingston-Hess House Main and Military Plazas Historic District Majestic Theatre Maverick Building Maverick-Carter House Meerscheidt, Otto, House Menger Soap Works Merchants Ice and Cold Storage Company Milam Building Milam, Ben, Statue Miraflores Park Mission Concepcion Mission Parkway Mission San Francisco de la Espada Mission San Francisco de la Espada (Boundary Increase) Mission San Juan Capistrano Monastery of Our Lady of Charity Monte Vista Residential Historic District Morrison, William J., Jr., House Navarro, Jose Antonio, Elementary School Navarro, Jose Antonio, House Complex Old Lone Star Brewery Old Lone Star Brewery (Boundary Increase) Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Therese Church Partee, Hiram, House Pershing House Plehwe Complex Poe Motor Company Post Chapel, Fort Sam Houston Prospect Hill Missionary Baptist Church Quadrangle, The Randolph Field Historic District Reinbolt Hall at St. Mary's University Saint Anthony Hotel San Antonio Casino Club Building San Antonio City Cemeteries Historic District, Old San Antonio Downtown and River Walk Historic District San Antonio Drug Company San Antonio Loan and Trust Building San Antonio Missions National Historical Park San Antonio National Cemetery San Antonio US Post Office and Courthouse San Antonio Water Works Pump Station No. 2 San Jose Mission National Historic Site San Pedro Springs Park Schroeder-Yturri House Scottish Rite Cathedral Selma Stagecoach Stop and Post Office Smith-Young Tower South Alamo Street-South Mary's Street Historic District Southern Pacific Depot Historic District Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Station Spanish Governor's Palace Specht’s Store and Schmidt’s Gin St. John's Seminary St. Louis Hall at St. Mary's University St. Mark's Episcopal Church Staacke Brothers Building State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek Stations of the Cross and Grotto at the Shrine of St. Anthony de Padua Stevens Building Thiele House and Thiele Cottage Thomas Jefferson High School Toltec, The Travelers Hotel Trinity University Historic District Trolley Stop in Alamo Heights U.S. San Antonio Arsenal Uhl, Gustav, House and Store University of the Incarnate Word Administration Building Ursuline Academy Vogel Belt Complex Wedgwood, The White, R.L., Ranch Woodward, David J. and May Bock, House Wright, L. T., House Ximenes Chapel Yturri-Edmunds House

250th Anniversary of the Founding of San Antonio 9th Cavalry at San Pedro Springs Acequia de Arriba Acequia Madre de Valero (Main Irrigation Ditch of Valero Mission) Adina de Zavala Adina Emilia de Zavala Alamo Cenotaph Alamo Iron Works Alamo Low Barracks and Main Gateway Alamo Masonic Cemetery Alamo Portland and Roman Cement Company Aldrete Houses Alejo de la Encarnacion Perez Alexander and Alma Oppenheimer Halff House Alfred Giles Home Altgelt-Isbell House Anna Barbara and Johann Engelbert Heidgen House Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery Anton Wulff House Aqueduct Arsenal Magazine Barbed Wire Barbed Wire Demonstration "Battle" of Adams Hill Battle of Rosillo Battle of the Alazan Battle of the Salado Belgian Transit of Venus Observation Site Belknap Place Benjamin Grossenbacher House Benjamin Rush Milam Bexar County under Nine Governments Biesenbach House Boldtville Schoolhouse Book Building Bowen's Island Bowie and Fannin, Site of Camp Building 100 "Taj Mahal" Bullis House Caile House Caile House Camp of Stephen F. Austin Capt. Jose Antonio Menchaca Captain Lee Hall Carl Wilhelm August Groos House Casa Villita Casino Club Central Catholic High School Central Christian Church Chabot House Charles Frederick King Chihuahua Trail Christ Episcopal Church Christopher Columbus Italian Society Hall Clara Driscoll (April 2, 1881-July 17, 1945) Coker Cemetery Col. George Wythe Baylor Colonel Edward Miles Colonel Jose Francisco Ruiz Commerce Street Bridge Committee on Public Safety Confederate Cemetery Confederate Cemetery Confederate Tannery Cos House Council House Fight Cover Cemetery Davenport Cemetery David J. and May Bock Woodward House Dawson Massacre Dodd Field (Fort Sam Houston) Enemy Alien Detention Station, World War II Dominguez-Micheli Houses Don Jose de Jesus Rodriguez Don Jose Miguel de Arciniega Don Juan Ximenes Dr. Claudius E. R. King House Eagar House Edens Cemetery Edward H. White II Memorial Hangar, Brooks Air Force Base El Carmen Cemetery (Cementerio del Carmen) El Quartel (El Cuartel) Elias and Lucy Edmonds House Emil Elmendorf House Emma Tenayuca Engleman-Muench House Enoch Jones Farmstead Enrique Esparza (September, 1824-December 20, 1917) Erasmo Seguin Ernst Homestead Evers Family Cemetery Father of Mexican Independence Fest-Steves Block Fiesta House First Officers Training Camp First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio Fort Sam Houston, 4th U.S. Army Headquarters Quadrangle Francisco Madero in Texas Georg Heinrich Buchsenschutz Family Cemetery George Isbell Home Gerfers Cemetery (HTC) German-English School Gilbeau Slave Quarters Goliad Road Gould-Onderdonk House Groos National Bank Guenther's Upper Mill, Site of Gugger Homestead Gustav Blersch House Halff House Hamilton P. Bee Hangar Nine Harrison and McCulloch Stage Stop Heidemann Family Cemetery (HTC) Helotes Hendrick Arnold Home of Samuel Augustos Maverick Huebner-Onion Homestead and Stagecoach Stop In Re Ricardo Rodriguez Incarnate Word College Italian American Community in San Antonio J.M. and Birdie Nix House Jack Hays House James Nathaniel Fisk Jay Adams House Jefferson Davis Smith John Hermann Kampmann John "Jack" Coker John Lang Sinclair John Salmon "Rip" Ford John T. Floore Country Store John Twohig Homesite John W. Smith Jose Antonio Navarro Jose Francisco Ruiz Kelly Air Force Base "Kelly No. 2" Flight Line King William Neighborhood Krause House/Mann's Crossing Post Office L. B. Clegg House La Quinta de las Piedras (Miguel Menchaca House) La Villita Little Church of La Villita Locke Hill Auditorium Lockhill School Ludwig Mahncke Lydia Mendoza Madison Square Presbyterian Church Majestic Theatre Marnoch Homestead Mary Virginia Burkholder Matamoros Road Maverick-Carter House McCulloch Cemetery Menger Hotel Menger Soap Works Mission Concepcion Mission San Francisco de la Espada (Mission St. Francis of the Sword) Mission San Francisco de la Espada Dam, Ditch and Aqueduct Mission San Franscico Xavier de Najera Mission San Jose Mission San Juan Capistrano Mission San Juan Capistrano Monte Vista Historic District Moos Homestead Moses Austin Moses Lapham Myra Lillian Davis Hemmings Navarro Houses Newcombville Norton-Polk-Mathis House O. Henry House Oak Island Methodist Church and Cemetery Old Edward Steves (Stevens) House Old Houston Road Old Military Headquarters Old Military Hospital Old Mill on the Pajalache Acequia Old Powder Mill Old S. J. Brooks Home Old San Antonio National Bank Building Old San Pedro Springs Old St. Mary's College Oscar and Rachel Berman House Otto Koehler House Our Lady of the Lake University Pan American Round Table Pereida House Perote Prisoners Perrin Home Petty House Placido Olivarri Plaza De Armas (Military Plaza) Polish Quarter Portland Cement Plants Protestant Home for Destitute Children R.L. White Ranch Rambie-Lewis Family Cemetery Rechel-Stumpf House Robert B. Evans Home Route of El Camino Real Roy and Madge Hearne House Ruiz House Ruiz-Herrara Cemetery Saint Hedwig Saint John's Lutheran Church (San Antonio) Saint Mark's Episcopal Church Saint Mary's, Old, Site Of Saint Philip's College Saint Philip's Episcopal Church Salado Valley Salem Cemetery Samuel S. Smith San Antonio Casino Club Building San Antonio High School San Antonio Mutual Aid Association San Antonio River Walk (Paseo Del Rio) San Antonio Section, National Council of Jewish Women San Fernando Cathedral San Francisco Di Paola Catholic Church San Pedro Creek Sartor House Scenic Loop - Boerne Stage - Toutant-Beauregard Historic Corridor Scenic Loop Playground Schultze Hardware Store Schulze-Schilo House Scottish Rite Cathedral Second Baptist Church of San Antonio Silvestre Revueltas Simona Smith Fisk Site of de la Garza House, Gardens and Mint Site of First Portland Cement Plant Site of Geier and Schmid Farm Site of Idlewild Community Site of Old St. Mary's Site of Old Veramendi House Site of Original Building, First Baptist Church Site of Rincon/Douglass School Site of the Home of Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig Herff Site of the Old Adobe Spanish and Mexican Land Grants Spanish Governor's Palace St. Anthony Catholic School St. John's Lutheran Church, "the Rooster Church" St. Joseph's Church St. Mark's Episcopal Church St. Mary's University St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church St. Paul United Methodist Church St. Paul's Epsicopal Church St. Philip's College (original site) Staacke Brothers Building Station "X" Stevens Building Steves Homestead Stinson Airport Stockman Building Sunshine Ranch Surrender of Federal Forces by General David E. Twiggs T. C. Frost and the Frost Bank T. C. Frost Wool Warehouse Texas' First All-Spanish Radio Program The Alamo The Argyle The Battle of the Medina The Bexar County Courthouse The Canary Islanders The Casas Reales The Grass Fight The Oge House The Pajalache Acequia (Ditch) The Pershing Chinese The Rev. John Wesley DeVilbiss The Southwell Company The Woll Invasion The Woman's Club of San Antonio Thiele Cottage Thomas Jefferson High School Toltec Apartments Travis Park United Methodist Church Twohig House United States San Antonio Arsenal Ursuline Convent and Academy Venustiano Carranza in San Antonio Vicinity of the Storming of Bexar Vogel Cemetery Vollrath Building W. B. Teagarden House Wesley Peacock House Wetmore Community Cemetery William and Mary Ann Richter House Wolfson House Young Perry Alsbury Yturri Homestead and Mill Zambrano House Zero Milestone Old Spanish Trail Zion Lutheran Church Zion Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Agnes Hurst Agudas Achim Agudas Achim Alamo Masonic Lodge Anchor Masonic Anderlitch Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Cemetery Arciniega Arnold Arocha Atlgelt Bacon-Beckmann Barker Barney Williams Beacon Light Masonic Lodge No. 50 Becker Beltran & Cannon Benko Family Cemetery Bexar Black Hill Bluebonnet Borrego Bueche Cemetery C. L. Trevino Calvary Cantu Carranza Cemeterio del Carmen Cepeda Cheney Cholera Burials City Cemetery #4 City Cemetery #6 City Cemetery No. 1 City Cemetery No. 2 City Cemetery No. 3 City Cemetery No. 5 City/Milam Park Classen Classen-Beyer Classen-Steubing Coker Cemetery Coloniel Chapel Hill Confederate Cemetery Cordi Marian Villa Cover Cemetery Crown of Life Davenport Cemetery Deats Delgado Delgado Dignowity Dullnig Family East Mt. Calm Eastview Cemetery Eisenhauer Elmendorf Englemann Espada Eucalyptus Evers First Memorial Fischer Fischer Schertz Flores Fort Sam Houston National Fritz Koch Fromme Cemetery Funari Gates of Heaven George Gerfers Cemetery German Lutheran Gonzales Cemetery Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Griffin Groenke Grote Harbardier Harmonia Lodge No. 1 Heickman Heidemann Family Cemetery Heidemann-Moreau Heimsath Heirs of Georg Heinrich Buchsenschutaz Family Cemetery Helotes Catholic Helotes Lutheran Herman Vogel Cemetery Hermann Son's Hermann Sons Hermann Sons Converse Hernandez Herritage Hockley Holbrecht Holy Cross Holy Spirit & Mary Immaculate Hooker Huebner Cemetery Hunt Lane Hutcheson Incarnate Word John Shock Shely Cemetery Jopperwein Mexican Juan Moras Kempin Kerr Kielman Kincaid Family Klemcke Knights of Pythias Koch Cemetery La Cerca Las Perlas/Griego-Rodríguez Lee Leesch-Uecker Cemetery Lessing Lieck Cemetery Locke Hill Lona China Lorant-Lorenz Madla Mann Road Marianist. Society of Mary Martinez McCulloch Cemetery Meadowlawn Memorial Park Menchaca Menchaca-Robles Mission Burial North Mission Burial Retama Mission Funeral Park Missionary Servants St. Anthony Mitchell-Mauermann Cemetery Moore-Pardue Morales-Lee Mount Olive Nat Lewis Plot and Mausoleum Oak Island Cemetery Oakley Oakwood Oblate Obst Odd Fellows Orden Caballeros de America Memorial Park Our Lady of Perpetual Help #1 Our Lady of Pertual Help Our Lady of the Lake Convent Panteon de Guadalupe Perez Ranch Cemetery and Chapel Perrin Pitman Rambie-Lewis Ramble Grove Ray Bon Rittiman Addition Rodfei Shalom Romple Ruiz-Herrera Salado Salem Cemetery San Antonio Lodge No. 1 San Antonio National San Fernando Cem No 1 San Fernando Cem No 2 San Isidro San Jose San Jose Burial Park San Juan San Lorenzo Panteon San Pedro Schulmeier Seidenschnur Cemetery Sisters of Sacred Heart Sociedad MutualistaSociedad Mutualista St Pauls St. Anne-Southton St. Anthony St. Elmo Lodge #25 St. Hedwig St. Jerome St. John Lutheran St. Joseph's Catholic St. Joseph's Society St. Mary's St. Mary's St. Michael's Catholic St. Patrick St. Peter Claver Catholic Stapper Stinson #1 Stinson #2 Sunset Memorial Park Tampke Temple Beth El Temple Beth-El Topperwein Tripp United Brothers of Friendship Unknown Unknown (Chimenea Creek) unknown (E of Sunset Memorial Park Cem) Unknown Grave (Culebra Creek NE of Zachary School) unknown grave (NE Helotes Creek) unknown name unknown name unknown name Unnamed Voges Vogt (North of Borgfeld Rd) West Mt. Calm Wetmore Community Cemetery Wheeler Winters-Jackson-Anthony-Wilburn Woodland Cassin

Bexar County, Texas, holds a significant place in the history of the Lone Star State. Native American tribes thrived in the region for centuries before the arrival of European explorers. In 1718, the Spanish established the Mission San Antonio de Valero, known as the Alamo, which became a symbol of Texas' fight for independence. The area came under Mexican control after Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821.

During the Texas Revolution in 1836, the Battle of the Alamo took place, where a small group of Texan defenders valiantly fought against Mexican forces. Although the defenders ultimately lost, their bravery and sacrifice galvanized the Texan cause. Soon after, the Republic of Texas was established, and Bexar County was officially created in 1837, named after San Antonio de Béxar.

Bexar County played a vital role in the westward expansion of the United States. It became part of the United States when Texas joined as the 28th state in 1845. The county saw significant growth with the construction of railroads, the establishment of military bases like Fort Sam Houston, and the influx of European immigrants. In 1968, HemisFair '68 brought international attention to the county, showcasing its rich cultural heritage and attracting visitors from around the world. Today, Bexar County is known for its vibrant tourism industry, robust military presence, renowned healthcare institutions, and prestigious educational establishments.
Brief timeline of the history of Bexar County, Texas:

  • Pre-19th Century: The region that would become Bexar County was inhabited by various Native American tribes, including the Coahuiltecan and Lipan Apache.

  • 1718: The Spanish established the Mission San Antonio de Valero, known today as the Alamo, in what is now downtown San Antonio. This marked the beginning of Spanish colonization in the area.

  • 1821: Mexico gained independence from Spain, and the region came under Mexican control.

  • 1836: The Battle of the Alamo took place during the Texas Revolution, where a small group of Texan defenders fought against Mexican forces. Though the defenders were ultimately defeated, their resistance became a symbol of Texas independence.

  • 1837: The Republic of Texas officially established Bexar County, naming it after San Antonio de Béxar, the former Spanish name for the area.

  • 1845: Texas joined the United States as the 28th state.

  • 1861-1865: During the American Civil War, Bexar County remained part of the Confederacy.

  • Late 19th-early 20th century: The county saw growth and development with the expansion of railroads, the establishment of military bases like Fort Sam Houston, and the arrival of European immigrants.

  • 1968: HemisFair '68, a world's fair, was held in San Antonio, bringing national and international attention to the city and the county.

This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of Bexar County, Texas.

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