Did you know the City of Somerset, Texas will celebrate its 50th birthday, or anniversary, beginning in 2020? Yup, on November 28, 1970, citizens in the Town of Somerset voted to become an official, incorporated “City of Somerset.” HOW SOMERSET GOT ITS NAME Most readers of this blog article may not know it, but this new city is the third, large community referred to as a Somerset. Old Somerset was settled in 1852, about 2 miles south in Atascosa County, from three families from Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky. In 1880, most of those town folk moved to the 2nd Somerset, or Bexar Community, where Benton City Road met James and Kinney/Kenney Road. Here was big money with the Kenney coal mines. In 1909, a contract […]
First Townsite Company; Mayor Kuenstler; C. J. Dick Kuenstler; T. P. Alcorta
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