Uvalde County Historical Markers

NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY - 67

Have -59  Need - 8

     Named for Juan de Ugalde, who was the Spanish governor of Coahuila. County seat is Uvalde. I'm going to start by saying I love this part of Texas, I mean there has to be something special about a place with a town called Utopia, right? Well it seems like a lot of other people think so to because between when we first visited in 2006 and last year there has been a lot of development. In 2006 we stayed in the Sabinal River Resort, it was so nice to be surrounded by nature, hummingbirds were everywhere. I had just taken my NCLEX and the weekend was supposed to be the reward for all the hard work but even as I was laying in the room having a massage I was thinking I had failed and going through the questions in my mind, it wasn't till Monday that I found out that I had actually passed. The surroundings still worked their magic but I just wasn't as receptive I would have been normally.  The trip in 2017, we stayed in a little house that was quite cute in the middle of Utopia, unfortunately the owner did not leave the key so it took over an hour to get in, which left a little hot and flustered after a long day of marker hunting. Normally when staying in this area I think most people will want to be close to the Sabinal River, but on this occasion we had tickets to dinner at Saint Jo's Picnic which was family style dining under the stars, it was fun chatting with the locals. The menu was a mixture of Tex Mex and seafood,  Steve really enjoyed the Crab Queso and spinach oysters, I liked it all. I wish I had taken my camera as I'm not a big selfie taker and I was just enjoying the night and didn't really think of my phone, which is always a nice change. I'd love to do this again and this time of year would be perfect but I'm having trouble finding them on facebook now so I do hope they are still open. In the morning we had breakfast tacos from Taqueria Utopia which was recommended by the locals the night before and they were right they were delicious.  I still want to try the Laurel Tree in Utopia so there is always another excuse to go besides the missing markers of course. We tried to capture the Civilian Conservation Corps at Garner State Park  marker but and I have never seen anything quite like this in Texas the ticket I got to get to the counter was number 91 they were serving number 58 so we didn't wait the hours  it would have taken simply to capture the photo at this time. 😒​       

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across the road from the house (see left) we stayed at in Utopia, it's a little hard to see but there deer at the end of the dirt road

       On to the markers Uvalde County has several old properties that have  posed problems firstly they are simply difficult to locate and secondly they require permission to access and if you only have the vaguest of directions it's hard to find out who the owner is to ask. So I am calling the Sabinal museum today to see if they can help. The museum itself through listed the Texas Historical Atlas as having a marker does not actual have one. The 18 x 28 Fort Inge marker has been missing for many years.  We have looked for the old post office many times without success, so hopefully the museum will know something about this also. 
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Benjamin F. Highsmith 
C.S.A. Saltpetre Mine 
Captain John Coffee Hays 
Capt. William Benson 
Captain William Ware 
Chalk Bluff Indian Massacre
Church of the Ascension 
Civilian Conservation Corps at Garner State Park 
Cline Community 
Dry Frio Canyon 
Early Texas Wagon Yards
Emmanuel Lutheran Church 
First Baptist Church of Sabinal
First Presbyterian Church of Uvalde 
Fort Inge, Camp Dix, C.S.A. 
Franklin, M. Jerome 
Garner Army Air Field 
General John R. Baylor
Grand Opera House 
Habermacher Home 
Home of Bertha Dalton 
Jefferson Davis Highway No. 03
Joe A. Kelley Home 
John M. Davenport 
John Nance Garner 
John Nance Garner Home 
Judge John Nance Garner 
Kelley Family
Kincaid Hotel 
King Fisher 
Knippa Trap Rock Plant 
L. Schwartz Company 
Montell Methodist Church 
Near Site of Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria Mission 
Nicolas Street School
Old Binion Home 
Old Davenport Home 
Old Patterson Home 
Old Post Office 
Old Rock Store 
Old Waresville 
Original Site of Uvalde High School
Pat Garrett 
Reading Wood Black 
Reading Wood Black
Rheiner Homestead and Sabinal Springs
Rice Hotel and Saddlery 
Sabinal 
Sabinal Canyon Museum 
Sabinal Methodist Church 
Schwartz House 
Silver Mine Pass 
Site of Camp Sabinal 
Site of Fort Inge 
Site of Fort Inge 
Site of the Mission Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria 
The Ditch 
The Uvalde "Leader-News" 
Town of Knippa 
USS Uvalde 
Utopia 
Utopia Baptist Church 
Utopia Methodist Church 
Uvalde County 
Uvalde County Courthouse 
Uvalde Methodist Church 
Waresville Cemetery 
William Ware