Texas History and Genealogy - presented by Genealogy Trails

Medina County is in an area that has been the site of human habitation for many thousands of years. Evidence of early man has been discovered at a site known as Scorpion Cave on the Medina River in the northeastern part of the county. Archeologists believe that ancestors of either Coahuiltecan or Tonkawa Indians occupied this cave continuously for several thousand years before the arrival of the first Europeans.
Medina County was separated from Bexar County by the legislature on February 12, 1848, and enlarged on February 1, 1850, again gaining lands from Bexar County. The arrival of barbed wire^qv and the railroads during the 1880s was a significant turning point for Medina County. Cattle raising had more than doubled during the 1870s. Property values tripled during the same period.
Cities and towns Castroville Devine Hondo LaCoste Lytle (partially) Natalia	Unincorporated areas D'Hanis, Texas Dunlay, Texas Mico, Texas Pearson, Texas Rio Medina, Texas Vandenberg, Texas (a ghost town) Yancey, Texas