Entrepreneurs Thomas Ruckman and Dr. Lewis Sumpter Owings founded Helena in 1852 on the site of an earlier Mexican trading post called Álamita (“little cottonwood”). Their settlement straddled the long-standing road between San Antonio and Goliad (formerly La Bahía), known alternately as the Chihuahua Trail or Ox-Cart Road, as so much freight passed along it …
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