Kerrville is the county seat of Kerr County, on the Guadalupe River about 60 miles northwest of San Antonio. It came up as a shingle-making camp in the 1840s, grew on ranching and the cypress timber trade, and took off when the railroad arrived in 1887. The Schreiner family shaped it for a century — the mercantile, the bank, the university. People expect a ranching town and find something more layered: a genuine arts identity, a serious Western art museum, one of the longest-running folk festivals in the country, and a clear, cold river running right through the middle of it. It's a real town, not a tourist stage set — and that's the appeal.
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