In the mid-1850s, as Kerr County was establishing a new county seat, a small community to the south was being established as a major trade area between
Comfort and Kerrsville (later changed to
Kerrville) and
Bandera and
Fredericksburg. On November 25, 1859, the first
post office was established and called Zanzenberg after the ancestral home of the town founder Charles Ganahl. Originally opened in the home of Ganahl, the post office stayed there until 1872, when it was moved to the south side of the
Guadalupe River, where a sizable community was being built. When the post office was reopened, it was called Center Point due to its location on the trade routes. Founded largely by settlers from western
Tennessee, the community continued to grow as relatives and neighbors from Tennessee converged on the banks of the Guadalupe to call Zanzenburg/Center Point their new home. On September 1, 1857, the first native of Center Point, Daniel C. Nowlin, was born to James Crispin Nowlin and Ann Gathings Nowlin. Daniel served as Kerr County Surveyor, sheriff of
Lincoln County, New Mexico, and then to
Wyoming where he was a prominent
sheep rancher until his death on February 5, 1925. The first attempt at incorporating Center Point came on August 9, 1889, for "school purposes". At the turn of the 20th century, Center Point was a thriving trade center and remained so until, like so many communities in America, it became the victim of new
highways passing it by. Once again, on March 1, 1913, Center Point voted itself an incorporated city, appointed a
mayor,
city clerk, commissioners’ health officer, and then, in October of the same year, dissolved itself by a popular vote of the people. It remained unincorporated until the mid-1990s, when voters once again approved incorporation. Within less than two years, it was once again voted that the incorporation should be dissolved. As such, Center Point remains one of the largest unincorporated communities in the state of Texas. ==Geography==