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)