German Pioneer Homesteads of Boerne

Boerne's storefronts get the postcards, but the town's first buildings weren't shops — they were homes, built by German immigrant families with whatever the land gave them: logs, native limestone, and, in one case, willow branches packed with clay. This short drive through Boerne's historic residential core visits five of those homesteads, from a dog-trot log house that grew as a family of nine children arrived, to a 1903 stone Victorian cottage that shows how far the town's fortunes had come in one generation.