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Main Plaza Gezebo in 1875 1900 - in/near Boerne
Click photo to enlarge Photo Credit: Dietert Historical Archives - Patrick Heath Public Library (Boerne) click to their website	Main Plaza Gezebo in 1875 Main Plaza Gezebo in 1875 At this time Boerne was a health resort area due to the springs and the fresh air. Main plaza and the Gezebo being the center of activity of visitors and weekends for Boerne's farmers and ranchers. Chat with Col. Bettie Edmonds - Sept 2013 Click here to read more about it...

75th Anniversary - Comfort - in/near Comfort
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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...

The beginnings of Comfort 1854 - in/near Comfort

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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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Main Plaza Gezebo in 1875

75th Anniversary - Comfort

Boerne Fire Department

The beginnings of Comfort

St. Mary's Sanitarium