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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...

Clara Moehring - Comfort's photographer (1908-1920) 1908 - in/near Comfort
Click photo to enlarge Photo Credit: Photo courtesy of Anne Stewart	Clara Moehring - Comfort's photographer (1908-1920) Miss Clara Moehring, Comfort's female photographer, who operated her photography studio from 1908-1920. Click here to read more about it...

The Boerne Opera House 1888 - in/near Boerne

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Photo Credit: Dietert Historical Archives -
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 Bergheim 1901 - in/near Bergheim
Click photo to enlarge Photo Credit: Jay Pennington click to their website	The beginnings of Bergheim Bergheim (Home in the Hills) was established by Andreas Engel. In 1900 Engel sold his first store and bought three acres of land at the site of the present Bergheim Post Office (1901). A cotton gin was installed in 1900 and he opened the store in 1903. Click here to read more about it...

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

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Photo Credit: Dietert Historical Archives -
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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Boerne Livery 1920s

Clara Moehring - Comfort's photographer (1908-1920)

The Boerne Opera House

The beginnings of Bergheim

St. Mary's Sanitarium