[5] Kerrville is named after James Kerr, a major in the Texas Revolution, and friend of settler-founder Joshua Brown, who settled in the area to start a shingle-making camp.

[6] Being nestled in the hills of Texas Hill Country, Kerrville is best known for its parks that line the Guadalupe River, which runs directly through the city; other features include its nearby youth summer camps, hunting ranches, and RV parks.

The USDA Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory is one of its less known aspect even though achievements such as “eradication of the screwworm,” changed the country for the better.

The Museum of Western Art (founded 1983) features the work of living 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 area known as Kerrville as early as 10,000 years ago.

[9] Early white settlers included successful shinglemakers whose mercantile business became a hub that served the middle and upper Hill Country area in the late 1840s.

These early pioneers organized their settlements near a bluff just north of the Guadalupe River in the eastern half of today's county.

This mill established a permanent source of power and protection from floods, and became the most extensive operation of its kind in the Hill Country area west of New Braunfels and San Antonio.

Kerrville's boom was also catalyzed by the combination of the cessation of Indian raids and the expansion into the business of cattle, sheep, and goat ranching.

In 1887, the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway reached Kerrville, and in 1889 the town incorporated, with an aldermanic form of city government.

Its economic base has diversified and broadened through business, agriculture, light manufacturing, health care, transportation, services, education, the arts, and tourism.

By 1995, the city's official population was still under 18,000, with another 20,000 people in relatively affluent residential areas south of the river and in the rest of the county.

Texas State Highway 16 (Sidney Baker Street) is the main road through the center of Kerrville.

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

Greystone offered a one-year preparatory course to help individuals prepare for an appointment to one of the five federal service academies.