Kerrville is a city in, and the county seat of, Kerr County, Texas, United States. The population of Kerrville was 24,278 at the 2020 census. Kerrville is named after James Kerr, a major in the Texas Revolution, and buddy of settler-founder Joshua Brown, who arranged in the Place to start a shingle-making camp.

Being nestled in the hills of Texas Hill Country, Kerrville is best known for its beautiful parks that stock the Guadalupe River, which runs directly through the city; other features tally up its clear youth summer camps, hunting ranches, and RV parks. It is next the home of Texas’ Official State Arts & Crafts Fair, the Kerrville Folk Festival, the Kerrville Triathlon (since 2011), and the Kerrville Renaissance Festival (since 2017), as without difficulty as Mooney Aviation Company, James Avery Jewelry, and Schreiner University. The Museum of Western Art (founded 1983) features the be in of flourishing artists specializing in the themes of the American West.

Archeological evidence (including burned rock middens, lithic artifacts, and Caddoan pottery pieces) suggests that humans lived in the Place known as Kerrville as yet to be as 10,000 years ago. The early open-minded residents were well-off shinglemakers whose mercantile issue became a hub that served the middle and upper Hill Country area in the late 1840s. One of the olden shinglemakers was Joshua D. Brown. With his family, Joshua Brown had led several additional families on an exploration of the Guadalupe Valley. These at the forefront pioneers organized their settlements close a bluff just north of the Guadalupe River in the eastern half of today’s county. The treaty was referred to as “Brownsborough”, but after the Place was formally platted in 1856 by James Kerr, a major in the Texas Revolution, the agreement was formally known as “Kerrville” and maintained a county seat with Texas.

Starting in 1857, a German master-miller named Christian Dietert and millwright Balthasar Lich started a large grist and saw mill upon the bluff. This mill acknowledged a steadfast source of knack and protection from floods, and became the most extensive operation of its nice in the Hill Country area west of New Braunfels and San Antonio. Soon afterwards, Charles A. Schreiner rode Kerrville’s newly found popularity by serving Kerrville’s mercantile needs. Schreiner acknowledged a family-run empire that helped build Kerrville’s early material comfort by owning almost everything of Kerrville’s matter sectors, including freighting enterprises, retail, wholesale, banking, ranching, marketing, and brokering operations. Schreiner’s elegant downtown home, a Romanesque stone structure at 226 Earl Garrett Street, is the site of the Hill Country Museum in downtown Kerrville.