FROM ADMINISTRATOR: FACT

ANSWER: The geographic center of Wilson County Texas is said to be at the intersecting of County Roads 312 & 311. The CenterPoint Church of Christ & Centerpoint School was located there.   Woodie and Mary Robinson erected a marker at that location with information about the church & school.

 

The Texas Legislature stated that the county seat was to be in the center of the county.  The new town  Floresville was located near the geographical center so in November 1873 an election was held and Floresville was elected as the place for Wilson County government.

CENTER POINT COMMUNITY is the answer & was guessed by Jana Wells.

FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR:  FACT 

On April 30, 1901, a request was made to the post office department in Washington, D.C., to establish a post office at Kennon City, which was the name suggested for the Marcelina Switch location. Kennon was the maiden name of Dr. Jones' wife. This request was made by R. L. Dilworth, postmaster of Gonzales, in which he also recommended that Arnold H. Poth be named postmaster. New postal regulations at that time required that short names and names of one word be accepted for new post office designations. A copy of the application clearly shows the post office name of Kennon City scratched out and the name of Poth handwritten in its place, thus establishing it as the new name for the post office with A. H. Poth the first assigned postmaster. The location of this new post office was in the front room of the A. H. Poth newly built residence. (Several named Poth but not the reason.)

FROM ADMINISTRATOR: FACT

In 1758, Luís Antonio Menchaca and Andrés Hernández resolved a title dispute involving Menchaca's San Francisco ranch. Their compromise resulted in the oldest recorded private land grant in Texas. The grant, recorded in the General Land Office, consisted of a total of fifteen leagues and seven labores in present-day Karnes and Wilson counties, of which eleven leagues and two labores went to Menchaca and four leagues and five labores to Hernández.  (Texas State Historical Association)  (Image taken at random from the related Handbook of Texas entry, Land Grants) (Congratulations Nicholas Sifuentez  for naming Menchaca's El Rancho de San Francisco Ranch)

FROM ADMINISTRATOR:

The Shiloh cemetery is the only remaining part of the old community of Shiloh, which had a Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Shiloh School.  Between the late 19th century and the early 20th century, a pioneer community called Shiloh existed in a beautiful pastoral setting upon a grassy hilltop fronting historic F.M. 539 in Wilson County Texas. This historic road was also known as the Sutherland Springs - Lodi  Road. In 1861, it was established to connect Sutherland Springs to the community of Lodi. Both communities were county seats at one time. Shiloh was located about midway between Floresville and Sutherland Springs. (Congratulations Linda Ogburn  for naming correct community)