Knapp Crossing

Next to Chili's on the Junction Highway is a boat launch area and Guadalupe river access.  Newer residents doubtless think this is simply a boat launch, but it is actually the remnant of an old road that still lies under the river.   For many years it was a river crossing known as Knapp Crossing. Knapp Crossing Road was flooded when the Upper Guadalupe River Authority built a new dam just downstream in 1980.

I have been told that Knapp Crossing was named for a much loved physician.  Dr. Dwight Rufus Knapp, a graduate of Yale and Cornell Medical School, came to Kerrville in 1931 from Danbury, Connecticut, and established a practice at the old Secor Hospital. He came to Kerrville on a business matter, fell in love with the Hill Country, and spent the rest of his life here.  
A loyal reader said he built a large Spanish style house across the river and that this road was the access to his house.
Dr. Knapp is buried at Glen Rest.