The Heart of Bexar County

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For 108 years, Casa Reales was the scene of numerous violent actions. They used a whipping post to punish people. In 1840, a deadly fight broke out between representatives of the Texas government and the Comanche nation. On September 6, 1850 construction started on a new City-County building in Military Plaza, one block west of Casa Reales. It was a two-story masonry building with a hipped roof. A district courtroom was located on the second floor. It became known as the “Bat Cave,” because a large colony of bats roosted in the roof rafters and often disrupted government business. A new jail was built in the walled yard behind the Bat Cave. q Top, left: East Side of Main Plaza by former Bexar County Commisioner W. G. M. Samuel, showing Casa Reales, the first Bexar County Couthouse. COURTESY OF BEXAR COUNTY AND THE WITTE MUSEUM. Top, right: The French Building— 1859 on Plaza de las Islas and Dwyer Street. Left: “The Bat Cave”—1851 on Military Plaza, Bexar County’s second courthouse, also housed City. COPIED FROM A STEREOGRAPH BY ALEX V. LATOURETTE. COURTESY OF THE SAN ANTONIO CONSERVATION SOCIETY AND THE INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO. C h a p t e r I F 9
q Above: Bottom, right: The Masonic Hall, 1872. Below: 1681 Courthouse Old Freemasons Building. In 1868, the city and county moved into the French building on Dwyer Street at the southeast corner of Plaza de las Islas. The building once was the regional headquarters of the Confederacy. The jail remained next to the Bat Cave. In 1872, the Commissioners Court decided to separate from the city and purchased the three-story Masonic Building on Soledad Street, one half block from the plaza and just north of the French Building. It had previously housed the original Alamo Lodge No. 44 A.F. and A.M., the oldest Masonic Lodge in Texas. In 1878, the county built a new jail on Cameron Street, a block north of the current city hall. The two-story limestone structure 1 0 F T H E H E A R T O F B E X A R C O U N T Y
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