Shavano Park

Shavano Park, also known as Shavano, is a suburb on Farm Road 1535 twelve miles north of downtown San Antonio in northern Bexar County. Early on, the site had a store operated by A. De Zavala, who became postmaster when the Shavano post office opened in 1881. Shavano became a small station and switch on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway in 1884, and that year the community shipped corn, cotton, hay, and livestock. At that time daily stages operated between Shavano, San Antonio, and Boerne, and the town had a saloon, a carpenter, a grocer, and fifty residents. In 1890 Shavano included a church, a district school, and a population of eighty, and by 1892 its population had grown to 100, where it remained in 1896. After that the community declined. The post office closed in 1903, after which mail was delivered from San Antonio. The site of the later township of Shavano Park became a part of the Stowers Ranch ( see ??GEORGE ARTHUR STOWERS