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Music in Uvalde

Songs About Uvalde

The Man From Uvalde
Vincent Neil Emerson
83%
"And the man from Uvalde"
Uvalde
Luke Olson
77%
"Uvalde"
Runnin’ Buddy
Max Stalling
54%
"We've always chased the girls down in Uvalde"
Rita Ballou
Guy Clark
52%
"She could dance that slow Uvalde Shuffle to some cowboy hustle"
Corsicana Lemonade
White Denim
51%
"Like Uvalde couldn't be further away"
Uvalde TX (Lone Wolf)
ForEach Loop
50%
if you were mine
miranda labert & leon bridges
16%
all my ex's live in texas
george strait
10%
keechie & bowie
theo lawrence
10%
Remembering Pat
Charley Crockett
3%
"Remember Pat / You were a rustler too"

Artists From Uvalde

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Los Palominos
latin
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Dale Evans
country
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Landry Scott Ritter
country

Rivers & Roads in Song near Uvalde

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Uvalde.

US Route 90 9 songs Nueces River 3 songs Frio River 13 songs

Musical Heritage

The Opera House the Vice President Bought RoadyGoat

You're outside the Grand Opera House on North Street in Uvalde, a brick building that's been standing since 1891 and is reportedly the second-oldest opera house in Texas. In 1917 it was bought by John Nance Garner, the Uvalde native who went on to become Vice President of the United States. Garner set up his office in the corner room and positioned his desk chair in the turret windows, so he could watch over his hometown. The Garner estate sold the building to the City of Uvalde in 1978 for ten dollars, and after a restoration effort that started the following year, it reopened in 1982. It's still an active theater today, hosting plays and concerts under the same roof where Uvalde gathered more than a century ago. Not many opera houses this old are still turning the house lights on for a live show.

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History of Uvalde

Uvalde, TX RoadyGoat

The John Nance Garner House in Uvalde is a significant landmark, as it was home to John Nance Garner, who served as Franklin D. Roosevelt's first vice president from 1933 to 1941. Garner was known for using his legislative experience and Congressional friendships to steer New Deal legislation through the U.S. Congress.

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Uvalde, TX RoadyGoat

Uvalde is renowned for its natural features, particularly for being one of the best locations for gliding in the United States. The area has hosted the World Gliding Championships in 1991, 2012, and 2024. Additionally, Uvalde County has been named one of the best white-tailed deer hunting areas in the world by Outdoor Life magazine, offering almost year-round hunting opportunities due to the diverse wildlife.

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Uvalde, TX RoadyGoat

Uvalde. The name conjures so much these days, but for those of us who know the town, it's layered with more than just recent tragedy. The spirit here runs deep, rooted in the land. Ranching and farming—that's the lifeblood. You can smell it in the air, especially as you come in off Highway 90, a mix of dry earth and distant cattle. And while honey production isn't what it used to be, you still see roadside stands selling local wildflower honey, a sweet reminder of Uvalde's "Honey Capital" days. Evenings here have a certain crispness, a blessing thanks to our elevation. It's a welcome change from the heavy humidity further east. But what truly defines Uvalde is the people. There's a grit, a quiet determination that's been tested, no doubt. Folks are pulling together, leaning on each other. You see it in the Friday night football games, in the way neighbors check in on one another, and in the renewed focus on community events. It’s a long road ahead, but Uvalde is walking it, one step at a time, holding onto hope under the Texas sun.

Newton Boys - Uvalde

1919

The four Newton brothers from Uvalde robbed more banks than any outlaws in American history, hitting over 80 banks and 6 trains between 1919 and 1924 without killing anyone.

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Fisher, King

1876

Celebrated outlaw who became a peace officer. Once undisputed ruler of a 5,000-square-mile area of Southwest Texas, centered in Eagle Pass and known as King Fisher's Territory. Son of Jobe and Lucinda Fisher, at age 17 Fisher settled on Pendencia Creek in Dimmit County, hired by ranchmen to guard their herds from bandits who frequently raided from Mexico, across Rio Grande. A complex and forceful individual, he imposed order in lawless border area. His henchmen rustled cattle and terrorized resisting settlers but also protected them from outside intruders. Near his ranch was sign reading: "This is King Fisher's Road. Take the other". Many prominent men, including Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico, counted him a friend. Tall, charming, and quite handsome, Fisher wore fine clothes and tiger skin chaps. An expert shot-- with either hand-- he was indicted on six murder charges and 15 lesser counts but was never convicted. Devoted to wife and daughters, he reformed after being arrested in 1876 by Ranger Capt. L. H. McNelly. He was acting Uvalde County sheriff, when, on March 11, 1884, he and the notorious Ben Thompson were killed from ambush at a vaudeville theater in San Antonio. 1973

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Garrett, Pat

1881

Pioneer law officer Patrick F. Garrett, renowned for killing outlaw Billy the Kid in 1881, lived in a house at this site during his residence in Uvalde. He had come from Alabama to Texas in 1869; here he worked as a farmer, cowboy, and buffalo hunter. He served as sheriff in several cities and also dealt in ranching operations. He owned property here from 1891 to 1900. In 1908 he was killed in New Mexico after an argument over land, but many people assumed that the quarrel was merely a ruse to force Garrett to fight or be murdered from ambush. 1970

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Black, Reading Wood

1852

Reading Wood Black, merchant, county commissioner, Indian commissioner, and legislator, was born on September 23, 1830, in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, the son of Thomas and Mary Grey (Wood) Black. At Springfield he attended the Upper Friends' School. In 1847 he became owner and manager of the 144-acre Clover Hill farm in nearby Northampton Township. Influenced by his cousin, Capt. William Reading Montgomery of the Eighth United States Infantry, who was then assigned to Fort Gates, Black moved to Texas in the spring of 1852. On April 14, in partnership with Nathan L. Stratton, who had accompanied him from New Jersey, Black purchased an undivided half league and labor of land near the head of the Leona River at the site of present-day Uvalde. One of his nearest neighbors was William Washington Arnett . Black entered into stock raising and acquired a thousand head of sheep. He erected a substantial stone building. With the aid of San Antonio lithographer William C. A. Thielepape , he then laid out a town that he called Encina (now Uvalde). Black also opened a store, cleared a garden, and operated a limekiln and two rock quarries. On June 12, 1854, he purchased an additional 640 acres in order to accommodate more stock and expand his town. In 1858 he built a gristmill, and by 1860 he owned a wagon train that freighted between San Antonio and Piedras Negras. As Uvalde's population grew between 1856 and 1861, Black prospered, and on January 6, 1859, he married Permilia Jane McKinney. Black was a Quaker. He was remarkably friendly to local Indians, especially the Tonkawas, and on several occasions helped to formulate treaties with the various groups living on or near the Rio Grande. He was not entirely a pacifist, however, but helped to organize and commanded a militia company for protection against marauding Comanches in 1856. In June of that year his company and one from the Sabinal area defeated a Comanche war party some thirty miles below Uvalde, thus effectively stopping Indian raids for two years. In September 1855 he established the first school in what is now Uvalde County, and in November he successfully lobbied the state legislature to organize Uvalde County and have his town named the county seat. On April 21, 1856, he was elected county commissioner. On May 12 he and his fellow commissioners completed formal organization and on June 14 named Encina county seat. Black was reelected county commissioner in 1858 and elected county judge in 1860. Although opposed to secession , he took the oath of allegiance to the Confederate States of America and continued doing business as usual until the murder of a number of prisoners by Confederate militiamen after the battle of the Nueces , on August 10, 1862. Repulsed by the anti-Unionist activities of Confederate home guards, Black moved to Mexico and remained there until the end of the Civil War . By then he had amassed $50,000 worth of property in Coahuila. In June 1866 he was the Unionist nominee for Congress from the Seventy-first District. He easily defeated Samuel A. Maverick and S. C. Thompson, then returned to Uvalde in July 1866 in anticipation of the opening of the legislature in August. In the legislature he strongly supported ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, arguing that the Texas failure to support the amendment would be interpreted by the Radical Republicans as a sign of disloyalty to the Union. Black did not stand for reelection when his term expired in November 1866. In September 1867 he attempted to form a Union League in Uvalde. This "act of disloyalty" to Texas and the South so incensed his former friend G. W. (Tom) Wall that on the morning of October 3 Wall murdered Black in his own store in the presence of several witnesses. Wall fled to Mexico and never returned to Texas. Black's papers, preserved in the Barker Texas History Center at the University of Texas, were edited in 1933 by Ike Moore and published as The Life and Diary of

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Briscoe, Dolph, Jr.

1973

Dolph Briscoe, Jr., rancher, businessman, legislator, and the forty-first governor of Texas, was born on April 23, 1923, in Uvalde. He was the only child of Dolph Briscoe, Sr. , and Georgie Briscoe. He grew up in Uvalde and graduated from Uvalde High School as valedictorian. While a student at the University of Texas at Austin, he met and married Betty Jane Slaughter (known informally as Janey) of Austin in 1942. Briscoe earned his degree in 1943 and served in the U.S. Army during World War II before returning to ranching in South Texas. The elder Briscoe was a business partner of Ross Sterling , who was elected governor in 1930. Following Sterling's defeat in the 1932 Democratic gubernatorial primary, the younger Briscoe wrote: Governor and Mrs. Sterling insisted that we travel to Austin and spend the weekend in the Governor's Mansion before he left office....Governor and Mrs. Sterling let me sleep in the bed of my hero Sam Houston . It was quite a thrill for a young man to know that he was sleeping in the same bed that the great Sam Houston had slept in. From that day forward, I had a burning ambition to get back to the mansion. It was a formative experience. Briscoe's own family had historic Texas connections-their ancestor Andrew Briscoe had signed the Texas Declaration of Independence . Ranching came before politics, however. After returning from the war, Briscoe enjoyed a successful ranching career. In 1960 Briscoe was elected president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association . During his tenure he focused the association's efforts on eradicating screwworms, which were a scourge of the ranching industry because they killed cattle, goats, and sheep. Politically, Briscoe was a conservative Democrat and a protege of his Uvalde neighbor, Vice President John Nance Garner , who had left politics following an unsuccessful bid for the 1940 Democratic presidential nomination. Through Garner, Briscoe met many leading Democratic leaders of the day, including President Harry S. Truman, Senator (later President) Lyndon B. Johnson , and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn . In 1948 Briscoe was elected to the Texas House of Representatives, where he promoted the implementation of the state's farm-to-market road system. He continued as a representative until 1957, declining to seek reelection so he could focus on managing the family ranching business. Briscoe remained in touch with Texas politics during his time away from Austin, and in 1968 he sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, losing to eventual winner Preston Smith . However, Briscoe made a strong showing in the primary and was encouraged to seek the governorship when the time was right. The Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal set the stage for a successful Briscoe candidacy. The scandal, which initially focused on charges that state officials profited from certain business deals in exchange for the passage of legislation favored by Houston developer Frank Sharp, grew to such proportions that Texas voters were in an anti-incumbent mood. Briscoe won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination against a field including both incumbent Governor Smith and incumbent Lieutenant Governor Barnes and Sissy Farenthold, a state representative. Briscoe went on to win the general election in November 1972. Upon taking office in 1973, Briscoe said his two major goals were to restore public confidence in state government following the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal and to ensure that state government service could be provided without tax increases. He focused on highway improvement, additional new state funding for education, and later advocated and achieved passage of the Texas Open Roads Act-a measure granting public access to the records of state government agencies. He also served as chairman of the Southern Governors Association, headed the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, and served on the National Petroleum Council. Briscoe's tenure would also be remembered for his closing

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Evans, Dale

1912

Dale Evans, actress, singer, and wife of Roy Rogers, was born Frances Octavia Smith in Uvalde, Texas, on October 31, 1912, the first child of Walter and Betty Sue Smith, who farmed in Italy, Texas. She discovered in 1954 that her original name was Lucille Wood Smith, according to her birth certificate, but her mother insisted this was a mistake. The same document indicated that she was born on October 30, not October 31, but Dale Evans chose to accept the latter date as her birthday. The Smith family moved to Osceola, Arkansas, when Frances was seven, and she entered high school at the age of twelve. At the age of fourteen she eloped with Thomas Frederick Fox, two years older, who left her twice within the first six months of their marriage. After the birth of their son, Tom Jr., the following year, she moved back in with her parents, who had relocated to Memphis, Tennessee. She divorced Fox, who had left a third and final time, in 1929, and married August Wayne Johns. The two divorced in 1935. Her show-business career began in Memphis while she was working as a secretary for an insurance company. Her boss overheard her singing to herself in the office and suggested she appear on a local radio show the company sponsored. The station that aired the show then asked her to become a regular. Evans's efforts to pursue a career as a singer took her from Memphis to Chicago, Louisville, and Dallas over the next few years, but she achieved only marginal success. In Louisville, where she had found work with radio station WHAS using the name Marian Lee, the station manager reportedly suggested she change her name to the more euphonious Dale Evans. She then moved to Dallas to be near her parents, who had moved back to Italy, Texas, and found a job as a singer on radio station WFAA 's Early Birds program. In 1937 she married a third time, to Robert Dale Butts, a pianist and bandleader whom she had dated in Louisville. Butts had moved to Dallas and got a job with WFAA as well. The couple moved back to Chicago, where Butts was hired as a composer-arranger with NBC and Evans joined the Anson Weeks Orchestra for a tour of the Midwest and West Coast. After the tour she returned to Chicago, where she worked for local CBS affiliate WBBS during the day and sang in clubs at night. Hollywood agent Joe Rivkin heard her on the radio and persuaded her to try out for the female lead in the movie Holiday Inn , starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby. She failed to land the part, supposedly because she wasn't a good enough dancer (it went to Marjorie Reynolds instead), but executives at Twentieth Century Fox saw her screen test and signed her to a one-year contract. She had small parts in Girl Trouble and Orchestra Wives in 1942. When her contract with Fox expired, she got a job as a vocalist on the Chase and Sanborn Hour radio show, starring Don Ameche, Jimmy Durante, and Edgar Bergen, but her option was not renewed in the fall of 1943. She signed a one-year contract with Republic and landed a singing part in the country musical Swing Your Partner . During the next year she appeared in several films, including Here Comes Elmer , Hoosier Holiday , and In Old Oklahoma (which starred John Wayne), while performing in numerous USO and Hollywood Victory Committee shows. In 1943 Republic proclaimed its singing Western star Roy Rogers–born Leonard Slye in Duck Run, Ohio–the "King of the Cowboys." Republic head Herbert Yates, inspired by the success of the stage musical Oklahoma! , decided that Rogers's next Western should feature a more prominent role for a female costar. The film was The Cowboy and the Señorita , and Evans won the role despite her lack of experience riding horses. The movie was an immediate success, and Rogers and Evans were paired in four more movies in 1944: Yellow Rose of Texas, Lights of Old Santa Fe, Song of Nevada, and San Fernando Valley. Evans's marriage to Butts ended in divorce in 1945, and Rogers's wife Arline died of an embolism short

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Things to Do in Uvalde

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Desi's Restaurant

Family-style Mexican on US Highway 57 in tiny Batesville. Homemade tortillas, hearty plates, and a reputation as the best Mexican food in a small South Texas…
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Everything Near Uvalde

90 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • Newton Boys - Uvalde · Historical Marker

    The four Newton brothers from Uvalde robbed more banks than any outlaws in American history, hitting over 80 banks and 6 trains between 1919 and 1924 without killing anyone.

  • The Opera House the Vice President Bought

    You're outside the Grand Opera House on North Street in Uvalde, a brick building that's been standing since 1891 and is reportedly the second-oldest opera house in Texas. In 1917 it was bought by John Nance Garner, the…

  • Uvalde, TX

    The John Nance Garner House in Uvalde is a significant landmark, as it was home to John Nance Garner, who served as Franklin D. Roosevelt's first vice president from 1933 to 1941. Garner was known for using his…

  • Fort Inge, Camp Dix, C.S.A. · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde County, where two forts once stood guard during the Civil War. Fort Inge and Camp Dix were part of a frontier defense line, protecting travelers from Indian raids and bandits. These posts,…

  • Uvalde County Courthouse · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Uvalde County Courthouse, completed in 1928. It's the fifth courthouse for the county, built in the Neo-classical style. Look for its impressive cast stone arches and Ionic porticoes at the…

  • Uvalde County · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde County, a place named for a Spanish captain who routed Native Americans right here in 1790. Captain Juan de Ugalde's name was eventually softened to Uvalde over the years. This county,…

  • Grand Opera House · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Grand Opera House in Uvalde, a place that brought a touch of Broadway to South Texas. Built in 1891 by local businessmen, this theater was designed for professional touring companies, staging…

  • Kincaid Hotel · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde, and right here is the site of the Kincaid Hotel, built in 1927. It was constructed by the family of William Davis Kincaid, a big-time Uvalde cattleman and businessman. This four-story…

  • Uvalde Leader-News · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the historic Uvalde Leader-News building. This paper has a long and influential history, tracing its roots back to the Uvalde Hesperian, founded way back in 1879. An English immigrant, Harry P.…

  • Early Texas Wagon Yards · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde, and if you look around, you might imagine a bustling wagon yard. These weren't just places to park your wagon; they were hotels and social centers for travelers. Imagine cooking bacon and…

  • Schwartz, Louis · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde, and right here, you're passing the site of a business that served this town for nearly a century. Louis Schwartz, an immigrant from Alsace-Lorraine, arrived in the U.S. in 1866. He…

  • Rice Hotel and Saddlery · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde, and right here is the building that used to be the Rice Hotel and Saddlery. Constructed between 1909 and 1910, this place has seen a lot of Uvalde's history. The first floor started out as…

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  • Reading Wood Black · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Reading Wood Black's home and trading post. A New Jersey native, he came to Texas in 1853 and founded the town of Uvalde, even donating land for a public school. Black also served as a…

  • Benson, William · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde, and just ahead is the site of the home of William Benson. A Maryland native and civil engineer, Benson found his way to Texas and became a teacher. But when the Civil War broke out, he…

  • Original Site of Uvalde High School · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the original site of Uvalde High School. The first school building, made of cedar logs, was completed right here in 1885, donated by the town's founder. After a fire in 1898, citizens rebuilt on this…

  • First Presbyterian Church of Uvalde · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Uvalde's First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. James R. Bridges organized the church with eleven charter members in February 1882, after arriving to serve the wild western Texas areas in…

  • Uvalde Methodist Church · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Uvalde Methodist Church, organized way back in 1856. This congregation was the westernmost edge of the Methodist Ministry in Texas at the time. The church has built several…

  • John Nance Garner House · 0.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Pull over for a minute and check out the former home of John Nance Garner, Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt. You might know him for his colorful quote about the Vice Presidency being 'not worth a bucket of…

  • Memorial to Ettie R. Garner · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Garner, John Nance. Memorial to Ettie R. Garner, secretary to her husband in his long career as a statesman. John Nance Garner, born Nov. 22, 1868, was in Texas Legislature, 1898-1902; U.S.

  • Garner, John Nance · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde, home of John Nance Garner. He was a rancher, banker, and a skilled lawyer who served as Uvalde County Judge. Garner's leadership and philanthropy left a lasting impact on Southwest Texas,…

  • Schwartz House · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Schwartz House in Uvalde, built in 1927. It was the home of Lee Schwartz, a local merchant and city alderman, and his wife Agnes. Designed by architect Will A. Noonan, this modest colonial…

  • Fisher, King · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    Celebrated outlaw who became a peace officer. Once undisputed ruler of a 5,000-square-mile area of Southwest Texas, centered in Eagle Pass and known as King Fisher's Territory. Son of Jobe and Lucinda Fisher, at age 17…

  • Dalton, Bertha · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the former home of Bertha Dalton, a woman who dedicated her life to educating Texans. Built in 1893, this house was bought in 1905 by Captain James Dalton. His daughter, Bertha, began her teaching…

  • Cactus Jack's Front Porch · 0.7 mi

    Right here in Uvalde lived one of the most powerful and cantankerous politicians in American history: John Nance Garner. Starting as a county judge, he climbed the political ladder to become Speaker of the House, and…

  • The Walkout of 1970 · 0.7 mi

    In the spring of 1970, the schools of Uvalde became a battleground for the Civil Rights Movement. For years, Mexican American students had endured discrimination: they were punished for speaking Spanish, steered away…

  • The Roads Paved with Uvalde · 0.7 mi

    As you drive on Highway 90, you're rolling over a story of geology and engineering that literally paved the way for modern Texas. Just west of Uvalde, near a town called Blewett, lies a unique geological formation: a…

  • Black, Reading Wood · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Reading Wood Black, merchant, county commissioner, Indian commissioner, and legislator, was born on September 23, 1830, in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, the son of Thomas and Mary Grey (Wood)…

  • Briscoe, Dolph, Jr. · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Dolph Briscoe, Jr., rancher, businessman, legislator, and the forty-first governor of Texas, was born on April 23, 1923, in Uvalde. He was the only child of Dolph Briscoe, Sr. , and Georgie Briscoe. He grew up in Uvalde…

  • Evans, Dale · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Dale Evans, actress, singer, and wife of Roy Rogers, was born Frances Octavia Smith in Uvalde, Texas, on October 31, 1912, the first child of Walter and Betty Sue Smith, who farmed in Italy, Texas. She discovered in…

  • Nicolas Street School · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Nicolas Street School, a testament to the fight for educational equality in Uvalde. Built in 1938, this is the only surviving school that tells the story of African-American education…

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Uvalde (Uvalde) · 0.7 mi

    Uvalde (Uvalde, TX) placed on the 4A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Jordan Albarado (6 HR); Derek De La Cruz (3 HR).

  • An Opera House on the Frontier · 0.7 mi

    If you want to see the moment Uvalde transformed from a rough frontier town to a place of culture and ambition, look no further than the Grand Opera House. Built in 1891, its ornate brickwork and grand arches rise above…

  • The Lawman's Unsolved Case · 0.7 mi

    The Wild West passed directly through Uvalde, and it brought one of its most famous figures: Pat Garrett. Years after he was known for killing Billy the Kid, Garrett came to Uvalde in 1891, broke and out of the law…

  • Getty, Thomas Murray · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through the Texas Hill Country, and right here, near what is now Uvalde, you passed by the site of old Fort Inge. From 1850 to 1854, this was home to Army surgeon Thomas Murray Getty. During his time…

  • Uvalde, TX · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde, a town with a story that starts back in 1853. Reading W. Black settled here, aiming to build a community. He opened a store, quarried rock, and even built a lime kiln. By 1855, he hired a…

  • Garner Army Air Field · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde, and right here is the site of Garner Army Air Field. Named for Texas legend John Nance Garner, this base was a vital part of the World War II effort. In early 1942, the very first cadet…

  • Leona Springs · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, and right here, the Leona River hides a secret: four groups of springs that once powered the area's early life. Back in 1858, these springs, rising from the deep Edwards aquifer,…

  • Shand, Terry A. · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde, Texas, the birthplace of Terry A. Shand. Born in 1904, Shand was a pianist, vocalist, composer, and bandleader who got his start playing piano in silent movie theaters as a teenager. By…

  • Smyth, Joseph Grigsby · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, the heart of a vast cattle ranching empire built by Joseph Grigsby Smyth. Born in East Texas, Smyth served in the Confederate Army before diving into the lumber business with his…

  • Southwest Texas Junior College · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde, Texas, where in 1946, a bold experiment in education began. Right here, Southwest Texas Junior College opened its doors as the very first tricounty junior college in the entire state.…

  • Arnett, William Washington · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, and right here, in what was once a wilderness, William Washington Arnett decided to settle. In 1852, he moved his family to the banks of the Leona River, building a simple shanty.…

  • Sevier, Henry Hulme · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, where in 1895, a young Henry Hulme Sevier arrived from Tennessee. He wasn't here for the scenery, though. He took over the local newspaper, the Sabinal Sentinel, and quickly caught…

  • North Uvalde, TX · 0.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, and right here is where Sansom used to be, a community that became Uvalde Junction. It started in 1891 as Sansom, named for Captain John W. Sansom, a Civil War veteran. By the early…

  • USS Uvalde · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past USS Uvalde. Constructed and commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1944, the "USS Uvalde" was a C-2 type cargo ship named to honor former United States Vice-President John Nance Garner and the county of…

  • Garrett, Pat · 1.1 mi · Historical Marker

    Pioneer law officer Patrick F. Garrett, renowned for killing outlaw Billy the Kid in 1881, lived in a house at this site during his residence in Uvalde. He had come from Alabama to Texas in 1869; here he worked as a…

  • Black, Reading Wood · 1.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde, a town founded in 1855 by Reading Wood Black. A native of New Jersey, Black was a true pioneer here, instrumental in forming Uvalde County just a year later. He served as county judge,…

  • Garner, John Nance · 2.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde, the hometown of a man who went from county judge to Vice President of the United States. John Nance Garner, nicknamed 'Cactus Jack' for his rugged western style, started his political…

  • Fort Inge · 2.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Fort Inge, established way back in March of <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1849</say-as> by Captain Sidney Burbank. It was named for Lieutenant Zebulon M. P. Inge, who died in the…

  • Fort Inge · 2.6 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    This frontier fort once stood as a line of defense against Native American raids in the wild Texas territory. Fort Inge was established in 1849 on the Leona River. It was named for Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike…

  • Garner Army Air Field · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Garner Army Air Field, established in July 1941 and named for former Vice President John Nance Garner. This field trained hundreds of cadets, including those from Latin America and…

  • Uvalde County, TX · 6.3 mi

    On March 29, 2017, 13 senior citizens from the First Baptist Church of New Braunfels were killed in a collision between a pickup truck and a church minivan on U.S. Highway 83 near Garner State Park in Uvalde County. The…

  • Ditch · 6.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of a community known as 'Ditch,' established back in 1874 by a group of ambitious farmers. They formed the Leona Irrigation and Agricultural Association, tapping into the local waterway to…

  • Kincaid Site · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, and right here, near the Sabinal River, is a place that rewrites Texas history. Imagine this: around 11,000 years ago, people we call the Clovis culture were here. They built a…

  • Fort Inge · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, and right here, a mile south of Uvalde, you're passing the site of Fort Inge. Established in 1849, this wasn't just any outpost; it was part of the first federal line of forts…

  • Garner State Park · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, heading north on Highway 83, and you're passing Garner State Park. This beautiful spot on the Frio River owes its existence to a bit of family drama. In the early 1930s, former Vice…

  • McFatter, Joe Harry · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, not far from Montell, where Joe Harry McFatter grew up ranching. He traded his saddle for a bomber's seat in World War II, flying a B-25 Mitchell over Italy. Facing intense…

  • Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria del Cañón Mission · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, not far from Montell, where you're passing the site of a Spanish mission that had a very unusual purpose. In 1762, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria del Cañón Mission was founded not…

  • Blewett, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Blewett, a mining community originally known as Carbonville, is on Farm Road 1022 and Turkey Creek five miles southeast of Cline in far southwestern Uvalde County. Outcroppings of limestone rock asphalt cover 50,000 to…

  • Leona Ditch, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Leona Ditch, also known as the Ditch and Leona Chapel, was six miles southeast of Uvalde in far south central Uvalde County. The community was named for the irrigation ditch system used by the farming community. Leona…

  • Reagan Wells, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Reagan Wells, a small rural community, is located on Farm Road 1051 and the Dry Frio River twenty-five miles north of Uvalde in north central Uvalde County. The area was originally settled by the families of Lawrence…

  • Uvalde County · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, a land with a history as rugged as its canyons. Back in 1790, Spanish governor Juan de Ugalde led a decisive victory over the Apaches right here, near the site of modern Utopia. The…

  • Uvalde County Limestone Rock Asphalt · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through a unique stretch of Texas history, right here in Uvalde County. This land holds the state's only significant deposit of limestone rock asphalt – a natural paving material. Back in the late 1800s,…

  • Cline, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Cline is on U.S. Highway 90 and the Southern Pacific Railroad eighteen miles west of Uvalde in southwestern Uvalde County. The site was in Dawson County between 1858 and 1866. The community was first settled by Celeste…

  • Concan, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Concan (Con Can) is on the Frio River and State Highway 127 in north central Uvalde County. According to local lore, the town was named after "coon can," a Mexican card game. Though the site may have been settled as…

  • Dabney, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Dabney, also known as Whitesmine, was a mining community at the southern end of Farm Road 1022, six miles south of Cline in far southwestern Uvalde County. An asphalt-mining operation was opened by the Lathe Carbon…

  • Montell, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Montell is on State Highway 55 thirty miles northwest of Uvalde in northwestern Uvalde County. It is in the Nueces River canyon just north of the river's confluence with Montell Creek. The site was that of the Spanish…

  • Patterson Settlement, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Patterson Settlement was on the Sabinal River six miles south of Sabinal in southeastern Uvalde County. It was founded by and named for G. W. Patterson, Sr., who brought his family homesteading from Alabama to Texas in…

  • La Jita Site · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Uvalde County, not far from the Sabinal River. Right here is the La Jita Site, a place where people lived and worked for thousands of years. Imagine generations of hunters and gatherers returning…

  • Leona River · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving along the Leona River, a waterway that's seen thousands of years of history. Spanish explorer Alonso de León might have seen it as early as 1689. By 1875, an irrigation ditch was built to water the farms…

  • Farris, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Farris, on what is now Ranch Road 2690 thirteen miles north of Uvalde, was named for Charles Jefferson Farris, who moved to the area with his brother and a nephew in 1891. Farris subsequently bought the other two men…

  • Heard, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Heard is on Farm Road 1051 and the Dry Frio River, two miles north of Reagan Wells in north central Uvalde County. It was probably named after Augustin Heard, an early settler in the area. The community established a…

  • Laguna, TX · 9.8 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Laguna, formerly known as Good Luck and Norwood, was at the intersection of Farm Road 334 and State Highway 55, a mile west of the Nueces River and sixteen miles northwest of Uvalde in west central Uvalde County. The…

  • Knippa Trap Rock Plant · 10.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Knippa, and right here, you're passing the site of one of Texas's biggest industrial operations: the Knippa Trap Rock Plant. It all started around 1904 when Pete Walcott came looking for gold, but…

  • The Bosque-Larios Expedition · 10.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Zavala County, near La Pryor, where a significant Spanish expedition entered Texas back in 1675. Led by Fernando del Bosque and Fray Juan de Larios, this mission aimed to bring Christianity to the…

  • C.S.A. Camp Nueces · 10.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Zavala County, near where Camp Nueces stood. Founded in April 1862, this Confederate frontier outpost guarded vital traffic crossing the Nueces River on the San Antonio-Eagle Pass Road. Its…

  • Emmanuel Lutheran Church · 10.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, a testament to faith and cultural resilience. Organized in 1904 by nine charter members, this congregation initially met in homes, served by traveling pastors.…

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Knippa (Knippa) · 10.7 mi

    Knippa (Knippa, TX) placed on the 2A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Joaquin G (0.509 avg).

  • Knippa · 10.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Knippa, a town that owes its start to the railroad. The Texas & New Orleans Railroad arrived in 1882, and by 1887, freighter George Knippa had settled here, encouraging friends to join him. The…

  • Knippa, TX · 11.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Knippa, Texas, a town that started with a dream of lush pastures. George Knippa moved his family here in the 1880s, drawn by the Frio River's promise of abundant grazing land. He settled near the…

  • Chalk Bluff Indian Massacre · 15.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving near Chalk Bluff in Uvalde County, the site of a brutal Indian attack on May 29, 1861. Two of southwest Texas' most feared Indian fighters, Henry Robinson and Henry Adams, were ambushed by twenty hostile…

  • The Jefferson Davis Highway Plan · 16.6 mi

    Several Texas highways carry an old honorary name, the Jefferson Davis Highway. It grew out of a plan conceived in nineteen thirteen and promoted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy: a coast to coast road named…

  • Cline Community · 18.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through the heart of what was once the Cline Community, a frontier outpost established in the 1870s. Celeste Pingenot was the first settler here in 1870, building his home and a stagecoach stand, store,…

  • La Pryor, TX · 18.4 mi

    La Pryor sits nestled in the heart of South Texas, a place where the land speaks volumes. The terrain is mostly flat, sprawling plains covered in hardy mesquite trees, their deep roots a testament to the constant…

  • La Pryor, TX · 18.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Zavala County, and right here is La Pryor. This town owes its existence to Colonel Isaac T. Pryor, a man who owned vast ranches in the 1880s. He envisioned a new community and formed the Zavala…

  • Pryor, Isaac Thomas · 18.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Isaac T. (Ike) Pryor, cattleman, the third and youngest son of David Christopher and Emma Almira (McKissack) Pryor, was born in Tampa, Florida, on June 22, 1852. Orphaned at age five, he lived with relatives in Alabama…

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: La Pryor (La Pryor) · 18.6 mi

    La Pryor (La Pryor, TX) placed on the 2A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Landon Jackson (2 HR).

  • Old Davenport Home · 19.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde County, past the site of the Old Davenport Home. This wasn't just any pioneer cabin; it started as a one-room log house built during a dangerous time, right in the era of Lipan-Apache raids…

  • Camp Sabinal · 19.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Uvalde County, not far from where Camp Sabinal once stood. Back on July 12, 1856, Captain Albert G. Brackett of the Second U.S. Cavalry established this spot. Its mission? To protect travelers on…

  • Desi's Restaurant · 19.8 mi · Things to Do

    Family-style Mexican on US Highway 57 in tiny Batesville. Homemade tortillas, hearty plates, and a reputation as the best Mexican food in a small South Texas…

  • Zavala County Courthouse · 19.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Batesville, the original county seat of Zavala County. The county itself was created way back in 1858, but it wasn't organized for judicial purposes until 1884, right here. The first courthouse…

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