Town of Quihi

Quihi takes its name from the white-necked Mexican eagle buzzard, the quichie. Within a week of the first families' arrival, raiders killed two of them, and the settlers threw up a brush fortification; raids went on until the 1870s. Alsatians and East Frisians settled here through the 1840s and 1850s. A post office opened in 1854 and a private school in 1856, and in 1874 the community founded the first public school in Medina County. Residents formed the Quihi Schuetzen Verein in 1890; as the Quihi Gun Club it had 1,000 members by 1994.

What the plaque says

Town of Quihi Surveyed in October, 1844, by Henry Castro, 1781-1861, distinguished pioneer and colonizer of Texas est. in March,1845. By ten families in charge of Louis Huth, agent for Castro. Many settlers were killed by Indians before 1860. Erected by the state of Texas, 1936.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Landmark Inn State Historic Site — 9.5 mi
  A store and stage stop at the Medina River ford in Henri Castro's Alsatian town, with a mill race under the ground and rooms you can still rent for the night.
• Frontier Times Museum — 23 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

• New Fountain United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi
• Vandenburg — 5.7 mi
• Medina County — 7.2 mi
• Hondo — 7.5 mi