Editing Uvalde County, Texas (section)

===Early settlements===
[[Fort Inge]] was established in 1849 to repress Indian depredations on the international border with [[Mexico]], and was served by the Overland Southern Mail.

One of the first settlers to the environs was William Washington Arnett, who arrived in the winter of 1852. The Canyon de Ugalde Land Company, formed by land [[speculator]]s in San Antonio in 1837, began purchasing [[headright]] grants in Uvalde County in the late 1830s. [[Reading Wood Black]],<ref name="A Guide to Reading Wood Black Paper">{{Cite web |title = A Guide to Reading Wood Black Papers | publisher=Texas Archival Resources Online | url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01073/cah-01073.html | access-date=April 30, 2010}}</ref> who with a partner, Nathan L. Stratton, purchased an undivided [[League (unit)|league]] and labor on the Leona River in 1853 at the future site of [[Uvalde, Texas|Uvalde]]. May 2, 1855, Black hired San Antonio lithographer [[Wilhelm Thielepape|Wilhelm Carl August Thielepape]],<ref name="Wilhelm Carl August Thielepape">{{Handbook of Texas | name=Wilhelm Carl August Thielepape | id=fth41| author=Albrecht, Theodore| retrieved=June 4, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association</ref> and laid out Encina, the town later known as Uvalde.<ref>{{cite web | title=Uvalde, Texas | publisher=Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC. | url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasHillCountryTowns/UvaldeTexas/UvaldeTx.htm | access-date=April 30, 2010}} Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC.</ref><ref name="History of Uvalde, Texas">{{Cite web |title = History of Uvalde, Texas | publisher=City of Uvalde, TX| url=http://uvaldetx.com/content/history | access-date=April 30, 2010}} City of Uvalde</ref> Waresville settlement by Capt. William Ware in the upper Sabinal Canyon and Patterson Settlement by George W. Patterson, John Leakey, and A. B. Dillard on the [[Sabinal River]] coincided with Reading Black's development of the Leona River at Encina.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}