La Vernia is a city in Wilson County, Texas, United States. La Vernia is upon the south bank of Cibolo Creek at the junction of U.S. Highway 87 and Texas Farm to Market Road 775, about 25 miles east of downtown San Antonio. The population was 1,077 at the 2020 census. La Vernia is portion of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The La Vernia area was first inhabited by the Coahuiltecan speaking peoples of Texas and gone by nomadic bands of Apache and Comanche who migrated to Texas in the 17th century. One of the earliest house grants made was to Erastus “Deaf” Smith. Smith married Guadalupe Ruiz Durán, a Mexican citizen, who was descended from one of the original Tejano or Spanish Texas families; and as such, received a land agree from the Mexican government upon Cibolo Creek, north of present-day La Vernia in 1825. This area remained primarily unsettled by Europeans until 1837, when veterans from the Texas Revolution began to arrive.

La Vernia was first contracted in earnest almost 1850. W. R. Wiseman of Mississippi, who organized a Presbyterian church at the site vis-а-vis 1851, is said to have named the place Live Oak Grove, for a grove of trees nearby.

In 1853 a make known office was established under the say Post Oak. The town’s name was changed to La Vernia in 1859. The make known came from the local Spanish vernacular for green oaks (Lavernia is not Spanish for green oaks). Hence, The Brahan Masonic lodge was standard in 1859. The building along with served as a teacher and church.