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The History Of Bandera Texas & Helotes Texas
 Known as the Gateway To The Texas Hill Country in the northwestern region of
San Antonio, the flavor of the Old West is still alive in Bandera and Helotes.
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The official town site of Bandera was established in 1856. The site, which was located on a cypress-lined bend of the Medina River, had been occupied first by Indians, then later by white campers who stayed in the area to make shingles. Once officially established, the town was named for nearby Bandera Pass.   

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Helotes was also settled around 1856 by Mexicans who intermarried with the Apache Indians camped in the vicinity. A man named Chaca was supposed to have been the first person to build a house and cultivate a cornfield at the site and may have been responsible for the name, which in Spanish means "green roasting ear of corn."
  
Another tradition claims that the name derived from the problems Anglo settlers had with Indians stealing their ripening corn. Yet another story has it that San Antonio vegetable-sellers could always rely on the town for corn, even in periods of drought.
 
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