Locations

D'Hanis, Texas

D'Hanis, Texas is located in Medina County on Parkers Creek at the intersection of U.S. Highway 90, FM 1796 and 2200. In 1847, 29 Alsatian families arrived to settle D'Hanis, where each family received a 20-acre farm and a town lot.

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Cuero, Texas

Cuero, Texas is located in Dewitt County at the convergence of US Highways 77A, 87, and 183 and claims to be the turkey capital of the world.

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Comstock, Texas

Comstock, Texas is located in Val Verde County on U.S. Highway 90. The town was initially known as Sotol City. In 1883 the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railway came to town and built a station. The town was then renamed Comstock after a railroad dispatcher, John B. Comstock.

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Columbus, Texas

Columbus, Texas is located in Colorado County along the Colorado River at the junction of Interstate Highway 10 and State Highway 71. Columbus began life as a river crossing in 1821 and was named Columbus by someone who moved from Columbus, Ohio.

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Cistern, Texas

Cistern got its name because, as legend has it, the townspeople went to the large cistern at the mercantile so often that if you were to ask anyone where they were going, the most common response was, "to the cistern."