About this tour
Helotes's whole identity runs through one dance hall, but that dance hall sits on a creek crossing that has drawn people for 7,000 years. This walk-turned-short-drive traces the town from its prehistoric stream crossing through the Swiss immigrant blacksmith shop that became its first real business, to John T. Floore's Country Store — the honky-tonk where Willie Nelson played regularly for two decades — and finishes at the German-Swiss farm church and cemetery a few miles south that tie the area's immigrant roots together.