Place Names of San Antonio: Plus Bexar and Surrounding Counties

Anyone who has ever driven through San Antonio can appreciate the mind-boggling complexity of the City's layout. The City planners seemed to have had either a twisted sense of humor or a complete disregard for logic. This is the City where a street will run for a few blocks, and then, for apparently no reason whatsoever, change names, only to reappear a few blocks later under the original name. There are streets that have been completely closed off by buildings, so that now they are essentially large, well-paved smoker's areas. There are Polish towns with German names and streets named after snake attacks and high schools named after non-existent towns and even a little town nearby named after a pipe lost in a creek during an Indian attack. It's a tangled history, but Green's book goes a long way towards mapping it. This book gives such a detailed history of San Antonio, and from such a unique perspective, that it has become one of my most frequently consulted reference guides. Highly recommended.

This is a great book, anyone living in San Antonio should get it and see all the rich history this area has to offer. Thanks to David P. Green for putting in a lot of hours of research.