Bandera County Courthouse Square

Before Bandera was the 'Cowboy Capital of the World,' it was a county seat that couldn't quite settle on a courthouse. This short walk around the square visits all three of them — the 1868 stone building the county first repurposed, the 1881 courthouse and jail that replaced it, and the 1890s Second Renaissance Revival building still in use today — plus the bank, church, and general store that filled in the square around them. It's the Old West version of small-town Texas civic life, one limestone building at a time.