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History on
a Pinhead
Garden Ridge has
no 19th Century history and very little 20th Century history. In 1972
the town was incorporated, becoming the first new town in 127 years.
From the original population of 230, it grew to 647 for the 1980 census
and 1,450 for the 1990 count. The 2008 state map shows a population
of 1,882.
Garden Ridge
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The second
largest bat colony in the world west of Bracken
Saltpeter and
Bat Bombs by Clay Coppedge
Texas has millions and millions of bats and hundreds of bat caves.
Bracken Cave, near San
Antonio, is home to 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats every
summer. It's the largest Mexican free-tailed bat colony in the world
that's open to the public. The second largest such bat colony in the
world is west of Bracken, near
Concan in Uvalde County,
where the Frio Cave is home to another 10 million or so bats.
These two caves and as many as a couple of dozen others in Texas became
defacto ammunition plants during the Civil War because 30 million
bats produce an awful lot of guano, which produces a lot of gunpowder,
which the Confederacy needed in the worst way after a Union blockade
cut off supplies of gunpowder and everything else... more |
Garden Ridge,
Texas Forum
Near Garden
Ridge, located in Comal County, is the famous Bracken Bat Cave,
which is opening up for tours for the first time in many years.
- Thanks, Hilda (Holly) Hilpert, April 04, 2012
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