WHAT DO YOU KNOW ?
WHAT DO YOU KNOW about Castroville, Texas In 1844, a ship of mostly farmers landed on the Gulf Coast of Texas to travel overland, past San Antonio, upstream on the Medina River. Two deer, three bears and one alligator were killed before reaching Henri Castro’s land grant from the Republic of Texas. The 36 future Texas colonists from Alsace-Lorraine, a territory of France, were led by Captain John C. Hays and his Texas Rangers to what would become called “Little Alsace.”________ For the next five years the settlers endured Comanche raids, a drought, invasion of locusts and a Cholera epidemic.(*) The town was patterned after a European village. The very un-Texan houses were on small lots and narrow lanes, usually two stories tall, made of timber and rough cut stone that was plastered, with thatched roofs. Surrounding the houses were individual farming plots.________ The first church in Castroville and also the first in the county of Medina was St. Louis Catholic Church. Fin