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Boerne Fire Department - Event in/near Boerne
Photo Credit: Dietert Historical Archives - Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne) click to their website	Boerne Fire Department - Boerne Fire Department To put out the fires the firemen would get their water from Cibolo Creek there by the park and the Ye Kendall Inn.

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Telephone Bldg - 1917 1917 - in/near Boerne
Click photo to enlarge Photo Credit: Dietert Historical Archives - Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne) click to their website	Telephone Bldg - 1917 Telephone Bldg - 1917 Chat with Col. Bettie Edmonds - Oct 2013 Click here to read more about it...

Karger Farm - 1894 - Comfort 1894 - in/near Comfort
Click photo to enlarge Photo Credit: Photo courtesy of Anne Stewart	Karger Farm - 1894 - Comfort The Paul and Dora Karger Farm in 1894. The large irrigation tank was built to irrigate this early commercial produce farm. Produce was taken to the Mexican Market in San Antonio to sell to the highest bidder. George Karger is on the framed structure, left to right, Dora, Paul, Betty, Elspeth and Alfred Karger. Click here to read more about it...

The Boerne Opera House 1888 - in/near Boerne

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Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne)

The Boerne Opera House

Built in 1888 with opera being the popular entertainment of the times. As vaudeville (comedic acts, song and dance/burlesque) became popular the Opera House became a vaudeville stage and was renamed the Plaza Theatre. As the "talkie" pictures became popular vaudeville faded and the Opera House became a movie theater. In 1966 the Opera House was torn down and the Ebner Pharmacy built their shop there. This photo (1910) shows the Boerne Gesang Verein singing club - that was begun to compliment the Boerne German band.

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The beginnings of Comfort 1854 - in/near Comfort

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Photo Credit: Jay Pennington click to their website

The beginnings of Comfort

The town was laid out by Ernst Hermann Altgelt along the banks of the Cypress Creek above its confluence with the Guadalupe River. Freemasons, freethinkers, and political activists from Bettina and Sisterdale settled the area. The town was a center of Union sentiment during the Civil War and lost many young men at the battle of the Nueces in 1862.

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Boerne Fire Department - in/near Boerne
Click photo to enlarge Photo Credit: Dietert Historical Archives - Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne) click to their website	Boerne Fire Department Boerne Fire Department To put out the fires the firemen would get their water from Cibolo Creek there by the park and the Ye Kendall Inn. Chat with Col. Bettie Edmonds - Sept 2013 Click here to read more about it...

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Boerne Fire Department

Telephone Bldg - 1917

Karger Farm - 1894 - Comfort

The Boerne Opera House

The beginnings of Comfort

Boerne Fire Department