Atascosa

Jourdanton, TX

Atascosa County was created from Bexar County in 1856.

Jourdanton, TX

This log cabin is a replica of first courthouse built 1856 near Amphion (Navatasco) 9 miles to the orthwest, on site given by Jose...

Leming, TX

Texas' bloodiest military engagement -- the Battle of Medina -- may have taken place in this general vicinity in 1813.

Pleasanton, TX

Peter Tumlinson was 19 years old when his family moved to Texas in 1821.

Jourdanton, TX

JOURDAN CAMPBELL JOURDAN CAMPBELL (1867-1938) AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO ATASCOSA COUNTY BY 1870; HIS FATHER JOHN CAMPBELL FOUNDED CAMPBELLTON.

Jourdanton, TX

In 1909, Jourdan Campbell (1867-1938) and Theodore H. Zanderson (1854-1927) established the Jourdanton community, named for Campbell, on...

Jourdanton, TX

County officials rented a small Jourdanton house for a jail in 1911 after the county seat was moved here from Pleasanton in 1910.

Pleasanton, TX

(Founded 1858) Named for early Texas settler John Pleasants, by John Bowen (d.1867), San Antonio's first Anglo-American postmaster.

Poteet, TX

Rancho del Atascoso was the second working ranch established to serve five missions constructed near present-day San Antonio, namely...

Rossville, TX

First Scottish community in southwest Texas.

Poteet, TX

This land had once been allocated in the 1700s as a ranch for Mission San Jose in San Antonio (20 mi. N), but in the 1820s was left...