Selma's history starts with a stagecoach in 1849 — decades before Randolph Field turned the whole area into a modern Air Force suburb. This drive visits the crossroads where the Harrison & Brown stage line stopped, and the German and Anglo pioneer farms that grew up alongside it: family cemeteries, homesteads, and one gold-rush fortune spent on Hill Country land. It's the quiet rural backstory behind a suburb most people only know for what came generations later.
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From Stagecoach to Suburb: Selma & the Randolph Edge
Stage stops, pioneer farms, and the roots of a modern Bexar County suburb
A self-guided driving tour · Pioneers & Settlement
4 stops · ~45 min · 6.1 mi · Driving tour
Driving tourPioneers & Settlement4 stops6.1 mi~45 minTexasRoam+
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The tour begins in Selma. Open Texas Roam to follow the full route stop by stop, with directions and audio narration as you go.
📍 General area · Starts in Selma
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