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San Saba County was organized in
1856 from Bexar County and was named for the San Saba River. The act
establishing the county was passed by the Sixth Legislature and approved on
February 1, 1856. The first newspaper in West Texas was the
San Saba County News, which was
founded on January 1, 1873. The paper continued operating into the twentieth
century, and in 1960 it merged with the San Saba
Star, which was established in 1902.
It was still being published as the San Saba
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In 1886 the Santa Fe
Railroad completed a line that came within twenty-one miles of the
town of San Saba, but it was twenty-five years before railroad
officials were convinced that San Saba's level of agricultural
production merited the extension of the line to the county seat.
Other towns founded at this time included Richland Springs, Sloan,
Deer Creek, Colony, Harkeyville, and San Saba. Cherokee, Harmony
Ridge, Holt, and Bend developed over the next twenty years.
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The original boundaries
of the county were confirmed by the Seventh Legislature in 1858.
During the Civil War
the citizens of San Saba County supported the Confederacy. Although
they held relatively few slaves, they favored states' rights. The
majority of San Sabans who served in the Confederate forces were in
the regiment of Col. James E. McCord. Their primary assignment was
to protect the frontier, and they used Camp San Saba, a ranger
station in McCulloch County, as their base of operations. |
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Cities and towns
Bend (unincorporated; partly in Lampasas County)
Richland Springs
San Saba
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