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The College Hill neighborhood of Alamo Heights was named for the new campus of West Texas Military Academy, which relocated in 1910 from Government Hill to land donated by Clifton George of the Alamo Heights Sales Co. Shown is a map from San Antonio Light, July 18, 1909.I purchased a home Evans Avenue in 2001 and was told it was the original farmhouse in Alamo Heights before the city became a city. I have tried to look it up, but cannot find any information.
Brackenridge’s estate, much enlarged in acreage, was sold to a developer that turned it into a hotel. As the Argyle , it was the center of growth in what became Alamo Heights, but progress was leisurely, despite a newly extended streetcar line. Residential building didn’t take off until the development of the Montclair addition in 1907 and Madeleine Terrace in 1908. The newly formed Alamo Heights Sales Co., had found the right message to attract homebuyers: “We have the trees, the hills and the streetcars.”
The subdivision name came from the expected presence of West Texas Military Academy , to which George had donated 10 acres of unsold, brushy bluff land for a move from its outgrown campus near Fort Sam Houston.
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