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History in a Pecan
Shell
In the 18th Century, the site was once headquarters of Rancho
de la Mora, a supporting ranch of the San Antonio de Valero Mission. Prior to
the Civil War, James R. Skiles held title to 1,500 acres of land here and platted
a town in 1857 which he named after Marcelina Creek.
Skiles had great
plans for the new town and built his plantation home here – with quarters for
his slaves and a gristmill on the San Antonio River. The Civil War nipped Skiles’
plans of empire in the bud and the gristmill outlasted the town by decades. A
post office opened as Skiles, Texas in the late 1880s. It later moved, forming
the nucleus for the future Falls City, Texas.
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