Site of Zanzenberg

In 1872 postmaster G. W. Harwell moved the Ganahls' post office to the south side of the river and renamed the community Center Point, reportedly because it lay halfway between Kerrville and Comfort and between Fredericksburg and Bandera. In 1888 Virginia de Ganahl deeded 200 acres to the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway, hoping to draw people back north of the river to a town called Ganahl. That town never formed, but the Ganahl depot a mile north kept Center Point a trade center, and by 1900 it had about 500 people.

What the plaque says

Site of Zanzenberg Home of Dr. Charles De Ganahl (1824-1883), a signer of the Texas Articles of Secession in 1861 and Army Surgeon for the Confederate States of America. The home was erected in 1856 and named after Dr. Ganahl's ancestral home in the Austrian Tyrol of Europe. Here the first post office in Kerr County was established in 1857 with his wife Virginia (1834-1895) as the first postmaster. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Treue der Union Monument — 7.1 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.
• Schreiner Mansion — 9.4 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Frontier Times Museum — 16 mi
  A museum built of fossils, petrified wood and cave formations in Bandera, holding a printer-historian's collection of frontier relics and oddities.
• Old Tunnel State Park — 16 mi
  A railroad tunnel abandoned in 1942 that now shelters up to three million Mexican free-tailed bats, who fly out each evening from May through October.

More markers nearby

• Rising Star Lodge No. 429, A.F. & A.M. — 0.5 mi
• Center Point United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi
• Center Point School — 0.6 mi
• Center Point Christian Church — 0.6 mi