CAIN CITY

NAME: Cain City COUNTY: Gillespie ROADS: 2WD GRID: 3 CLIMATE: Warm summer/mild winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time

COMMENTS: Seven miles south of Fredericksburg on 290. REMAINS: Not much

Cain City's first resident was J.C. Stinson of San Antonio who settled in 1913. The second building in Cain City was a Fredericksburg & Northern depot and the town boomed in 1914. A warehouse, lumberyard, post-office, hotel, school, bank and two general stores were built. Several dozen houses were also built. Cain City started to lose its occupants in 1922. By the early 1940's, the town was slowly withering away. The hotel was torn down in 1942 and the railroad was shut down in 1944. What is left of Cain City is observed at the intersection of the old Luckenbach road and Broadway. The remains are a few bricks of the bank vault on a small one-foot high wall around a blue ranch house. All the other buildings and railroad tracks were destroyed. There now are several houses along the roads were Cain City once thrived. Submitted by: Chris Lea

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