Mormon Settlers & the Medina River

Two very different frontier communities left their mark on the Medina River outside Bandera: a splinter colony of Mormon settlers who milled grain and built furniture here in the 1850s, and a Texas Ranger scout turned lay preacher who built his own stone chapel by hand a generation later. This drive connects the mill town Bandera grew from to the small chapel and cemetery on Privilege Creek where Policarpo 'Polly' Rodriguez ministered to his rural neighbors.