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A strategic Indian point in early days. Rangers and Comanches struggled here in 1843. In 1854 Elder Lyman Wight settled Mormon colony. In 1855 Poles settled here. From early days a part of Bexar County, created and organized in 1856. Bandera, the county seat founded by John James, Charles de Montel and John Herndon in 1853
Bandera County is a historical marker in Bandera, Bandera County, dedicated in 1936. It is one of 29 historical markers documented in Bandera County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 56 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 29.7297, -99.0658 near Bandera. The nearest cataloged historic site is Schimdtke-Callahan House (historical marker), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Frontier Times Museum, Frontier Times Museum, and Benjamin Franklin and Mary Hay Langford, Jr. Home.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5019000290. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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