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Boerne is the county seat of Kendall County in the Texas Hill Country, about 30 miles northwest of San Antonio.

German Free Thinker colonists from the failed Bettina colony camped on Cibolo Creek in 1849 and named their settlement Tusculum.

The town was platted in 1852 by John James and Gustav Theissen and renamed for Karl Ludwig Börne, a German author and political satirist who had died in 1837 and never saw Texas.

Boerne became the seat of Kendall County in 1862, winning the county-seat vote by a margin of only 67 votes.

Boerne's 1870 Kendall County Courthouse is promoted as the second-oldest courthouse in Texas.

The Boerne Village Band, founded in 1860, is billed as the oldest continuously organized German band in the world outside of Germany itself.

Boerne gives its name to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, City of Boerne v. Flores, a major decision on religious freedom and the limits of federal power.

Cibolo Creek, a roughly 96-mile tributary of the San Antonio River, flows through the heart of Boerne.

More than 140 historic limestone structures survive in Boerne, many of them along its Hill Country Mile downtown.

In the late 1800s Boerne was a popular health resort, drawing visitors who came for the Hill Country's clean, dry air, and the arrival of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway in 1887 triggered a building boom.