Located in southwest of Bexar County, the community was named for Count Norbert von Ormay, an Austrian nobleman who lived in the area in the mid-1880s. The town was previously known as Medina Crossing and was renamed to its current name by Branson Bywater the postmaster in 1886. The community was first founded one mile east at Garza’s Crossing after Texas declared its independence. The Von Ormy Castle was the home of the Count. It was first called ‘Castle in the Medina’, a large limestone Pennsylvania-style home that overlooked the Medina River, by San Antonio merchant Enoch Jones in 1861. The house was the first in Texas to have indoor plumbing.
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