Locations

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."

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Cheapside, Texas

Cheapside, Texas is located in Gonzales County on FM 2067. The first settlers arrived in 1857, and a doctor born in England named the town after Cheapside Street in London.

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Channing, Texas

Channing, Texas is the county seat of Hartley County, Texas, and was founded in 1888 by a paymaster for the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad named George Channing Rivers.