[1] In 1997, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark 4208 was placed at the intersection of East Street and U.S. 90, to mark the site of the former home and trading post of Reading Wood Black.

Black and Stratton[4] purchased an undivided league and labor on the Leona River in 1853 at the future site of Uvalde.

On May 2, 1855,[5] Black hired San Antonio lithographer Wilhelm Carl August Thielepape,[6] and laid out Encina, which would later be known as Uvalde.

[9] In 1866, he was elected to the legislature from the 72nd district,[10] where he strongly supported ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, designed to protect the citizenship of recently freed slaves.

Black's attempt to form a strong local Union League has been debated as a factor in his murder by friend George Washington "Tom" Wall on October 3, 1867.

[1] In 1997, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark 4208 was placed at the intersection of East Street and U.S. 90, to mark the site of the former home and trading post of Reading Wood Black.