Wilson County, in the south central part of
Texas, was organized by an act of the
legislature of the State of Texas on February
13, 1860 from Karnes and Bexar counties. The
county is named after James Charles Wilson, an
early settler of Texas and later a state
legislator.
The area that now comprises Wilson County has been
the site of human habitation for several millennia. Archeological
evidence reveals that hunter-gatherer Indians of the Coahuiltecan linguistic
family occupied the region for several thousand
years prior to the arrival of Europeans in the
sixteenth century. The area was also in the
hunting range of Comanche, Tonkawa, and
Lipan-Apache Indians.
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