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 Real County
N 29° 43.562 W 099° 45.756
14R E 426246 N 3288671
The 1936 pink granite block historic marker at the Real County courthouse grounds on US 83
Waymark Code: WMPPF4
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/01/2015
Views: 5
The Real County pink granite block Texas Highway Department historic marker is located on the Southwest corner of the Real County courthouse grounds in downtown Leakey, Texas.
The plaque on top of the markers reads 1968, so this may be a replacement of the original.
Marker Number: 4211
Marker Text:
Located on the Edwards Plateau, Real County is in an area of rolling terrain broken by the canyons of the Frio River. Because of raids by Comanche, Apache, and Lipan Apache Indians, white settlement was hindered until after 1881. Mission San Lorenzo de La Santa Cruz was founded by the Spanish in 1762 near present Camp Wood.
The county was created on April 3, 1913, from Edwards, Kerr, and Bandera counties: organized on July 26, 1913, it was named in honor of Julius Real (1860-1944), a prominent businessman and state senator, 1909-1914 and 1924-1928. Leakey, the county seat, was established by John Leakey (1824-1900), a pioneer settler in the region. (1968)
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