Our Place in History
Cuero (“rawhide” in Spanish) was a starting point for one of the first cattle drives to northern markets in 1866. Its agriculture ranked second only to oil and gas production in DeWitt County. A handful of DeWitt County residents cared deeply for preservation –not only to honor their family legacies, but to restore the buildings in which many generations had shopped for produce, paid their taxes, or exchanged handshakes with local merchants.