TRICENTENNIAL TREE DEDICATION


Somerset Mayor Lydia Hernandez, welcomes participants and guests at the dedication of Somerset’s Tricentennial Garden and plaque at the Somerset Economic Development Corporation House. Somerset, as a community within Bexar County was helping to celebrate the Tricentennial, 300 years, since the founding of Bexar County and the Villa de San Fernando be Bexar on the San Antonio River on May6, 1718.
Left to right are: Tricentennial Committee Chair Peggy Weyel (getting ready to reveal the Southwell plaque she designed for the event), Historical Society President Herlinda Ramos, Society member Ann King, Society member Jesse Alvarado, Immediate past Mayor Paul Cuellar, Father James Kotara of St Mary’s Catholic Church, Pastor David Rivera of Somerset United Methodist Church, and three un-named guests.
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This is the text on the bronze plaque affixed to a limestone block in Somerset’s Tricentennial Garden that was dedicated with the new garden on October 6, 2018.
Out Somerset Tricentennial marker, designed and scripted by Tricentennial Chair Peggy Weyel, from the Southwell Corporation foundry in San Antonio, and placed on the limestone by landscaping company from Lytle, September, 2018.