Real County, Texas: History
1762–1771: Looking for protection from Comanches, Lipan Apache chief El Gran Cabezón persuades Franciscans and the Spanish military to establish San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz Mission on the Nueces River. The mission was abandoned in 1771
1856: John and Nancy Leakey settle in Frio Canyon.
1857: The original Camp Wood is established on the Nueces River near the site of the former San Lorenzo mission.
1864: Lipan Apaches attack the family of George Schwander in the abandoned ruins of the San Lorenzo mission.
1868: Theophilus Watkins, F. Smith and Newman Patterson construct a gravity flow irrigation canal from the Frio River that operates for a century.
1879: Indians attack and kill Jennie Coalson, wife of Nic Coalson, and two children at Half Moon Prairie.
1881: Lipan Apaches strike the McLauren home at Buzzard's Roost in the Frio Canyon. Last Indian raid in southwest Texas.
1910: Crop farming declines in the county, livestock ranching gains prominence, in particular angora goats.
1913: On April 3, the Texas state legislature establishes Real County from parts of Edwards, Bandera, and Kerr counties. Leakey is the county seat.
1920: Camp Wood township is founded and becomes a railroad terminus to transport heart cedar.
1924: Charles A. Lindbergh lands in Real County.
1948: Farm to Market Road 337 is completed.