Street Name Changes

Most people who have lived in Kerrville more than a few days know that three streets in the city were named for three young men who lost their lives in World War I.

Mountain Street became Earl Garrett Street; Lytle Street, which was the heart of the old Mexican business district, became Francisco Lemos Street; and, we can be especially grateful that the difficult-to-spell Tchoupitoulas Street became Sidney Baker Street! 

These are not the only streets that have had a name change.

There was a street on the east side of town formerly known as Garrett Street.  The Garrett Street name had to be changed to avoid confusion with Earl Garrett Street, so it took the name Lytle after the original Lytle Street became Francisco Lemos Street.

Houston Street, on the western edge of downtown, became Rodriguez Street. 

A section of the old Junction Road became Guadalupe Street when the Junction Highway was straightened out.

Broadway may have carried the name Main Street for a while.

Do my readers know of others?

There are also streets that have disappeared, one being Pecan Street, which ran off Lytle Street (now Lemos) by the river, about where the Riverside Nature Center is today.

I have seen several references in old newspapers to the Turtle Creek Road river crossing near Kerrville.  Today's Lower  and Upper Turtle Creek Roads do not cross the Guadalupe. Did today's Bandera Highway once carry the name Turtle Creek Road for part of its length?  I'm guessing the river crossing was at G Street (which appears on an undated, mid-20th century map as the Old Medina Road.)

Perhaps a reader can confirm that for me.