The property at the Maverick Ranch-Fromme Farm will be preserved through a conservation easement.
As the Hill Country teemed with the construction of houses, restaurants and shops, the Fenstermaker sisters fought for decades to keep their ranch and farmland near Camp Bullis intact. Now, 329 acres of what’s known as the Maverick Ranch-Fromme Farm will be preserved through a conservation easement, the Texas Land Conservancy said this week.
Mexican company plans to build luxury housing, hotel, restaurants on 218 acres in Hill Country Maverick Ranch and Fromme Farm were established by Ernst Hermann, Emma Altgelt and Daniel Fromme in the 1860s. Native Americans camped on the property, and there was a raid in the 1870s, according to the Texas State Historical Association. It also hosted cattle that were driven north and the first school in the area for children living at nearby farms and ranches.
Why does the Balcones Escarpment matter? It’s ‘where the West begins.’ Sisters Mary, Martha and Bebe Fenstermaker, descendants of the Maverick family, have long sought to preserve the land. They have won multiple legal battles as the Texas Department of Transportation, power companies, federal agencies and water districts that wanted to build a dam and reservoir on their land sought to take it by eminent domain.
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