Education in Hunt

The school moved away from the river where the Guadalupe begins. Its North Fork rises near the Real County line and runs twenty-two miles east; the South Fork rises to the southwest and runs twenty miles northeast, the two meeting near Hunt. From there the river flows 230 miles southeast to San Antonio Bay, gathering the Comal and San Marcos rivers and draining about 6,070 square miles. Its upper course crosses the Edwards Plateau beneath limestone bluffs with bald cypress, and it leaves the Hill Country at the Balcones fault near New Braunfels.

What the plaque says

Education in Hunt Established about 1915, the Hunt School combined the earlier rural schools of the North and South Forks of the Guadalupe River that served the children of the early settlers of Kerr County. Increased enrollment and floods prompted the community to build a new school farther from the river in 1926. In 1934 citizens voted for incorporation of the Hunt Independent School District. Low enrollment caused the upper grades to transfer to Kerrville from 1938 to 1980, when grades 7-12 transferred to the new Tom Moore School. The Hunt School continues to serve the community. (1996)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Schreiner Mansion — 12 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Lost Maples State Natural Area — 23 mi
  A canyon of the upper Sabinal where a relict stand of bigtooth maples turns color each autumn, a sight that drew crowds up a gravel road long before there was a park.
• Treue der Union Monument — 26 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Frontier Times Museum — 29 mi
  A museum built of fossils, petrified wood and cave formations in Bandera, holding a printer-historian's collection of frontier relics and oddities.

More markers nearby

• Hunt Japonica Cemetery — 0.7 mi
• Schumacher Crossing on the Guadalupe River — 1.0 mi
• Henderson Cemetery (Two miles north) — 5.0 mi
• Old Ingram — 5.7 mi