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2019-02-09		Boerne				Boerne Chocolate Walk		Event Website Link	Join the Boerne community for this sweet event! The walk wil
2019-07-02		Boerne				Patriotic Abendkonzert		Event Website Link	Evening concerts with the Boerne Village Band

Richard Caldwell interviewing Herff decendents

Telephone Bldg - 1917 - Event in/near Boerne
Photo Credit: Dietert Historical Archives - Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne) click to their website	Telephone Bldg - 1917 - Telephone Bldg - 1917

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Boerne Livery 1920s 1920 - in/near Boerne
Click photo to enlarge Photo Credit: Dietert Historical Archives - Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne) click to their website	Boerne Livery 1920s Boerne Livery 1920s This was an important point in time between using horses for transportation and the automobile. A trip to San Antonio by cart would take a day then you'd spend the next day in San Antonio then take another day to get back to Boerne. Chat with Col. Bettie Edmonds - Sept 2013 Click here to read more about it...

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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St. Mary's Sanitarium 1896 - in/near Boerne

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Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne)

St. Mary's Sanitarium

A facility used for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). One of the founders of this sanitarium was Dr. Ferdinand Herff, a prominent early German settler in Boerne. Dr. Herff was instrumental in getting the railroad from San Antonio to Boerne which would help get his patients to Boerne. Boerne was a center for the treatment of TB due to its fresh air as at this point there were no antibiotics for TB. This building was torn down in 1930.

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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...

Boerne Public School - class of 1908 1908 - in/near Boerne
Click photo to enlarge Photo Credit: Dietert Historical Archives - Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne) click to their website	Boerne Public School - class of 1908 Boerne Public School - class of 1908 School built 1874 This was the first school - all grades were taught together and was in German not English. Zoom into this photo to see the bare feet and Victorian clothing at the time. Chat with Col. Bettie Edmonds - Sept 2013 Click here to read more about it...

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Telephone Bldg - 1917

Boerne Livery 1920s

The beginnings of Comfort

St. Mary's Sanitarium

Karger Farm - 1894 - Comfort

Boerne Public School - class of 1908