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CIBOLO,
TEXAS
Guadalupe County,
Central
Texas S
FM 78 and Cibolo Creek
16 Miles W of Seguin
3 Miles S of I-35
12 Miles E of San Antonio
Population: 3,035 (2000)
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Cibolo Creek
forms the boundary between Guadalupe and Bexar counties. The word
is Spanish for "buffalo." According to legend, Indians stampeded buffalo
over the steep banks of the creek, which was easier than hunting them
from horseback.
History in a Pecan Shell |
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Jacob Schlather is credited with being one of the first settlers in
the late 1860s. Jacob’s son opened the area’s first store. When the
store was sold to Charles Fromme in the early 1880s, the village that
had grown up around it was collectively known as Fromme’s store. That
designation became obsolete with the arrival of the Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio Railroad in 1877. The railroad designated their stop
“Cibolo Valley.” The name Cibolo was submitted for a post office and
in 1883, with a population estimated at 100 residents, Cibolo, Texas
started appearing on maps.
By 1904 the townsfolk had constructed a simple one room school, but
by 1914 this was replaced by a larger building. Two years later a
two-story brick high school was constructed. The town survived the
Great Depression and had a population of 250 prior to WWII,
growing slowly to 398 in the late 1960s. In the 1980s the inevitable
growth of San Antonio
reached Cibolo and from 657 in the late 1980s it has increased to
the present (2000) 3,035. |
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