Built in 1851 from limestone rock pulled by teams of Oxen from the nearby Cibilo Creek, the stagecoach was the first home built in Bulverde, Texas. It was known for miles around as a stage coach stop, a trading post, and most of all a place for a warm meal and friendly hospitality. Shortly after the Settlement was complete, the Homestead was constructed and became the hearth and the home of the original landowners, who raised eight children under its roof.
The original settler, Anton Pieper, an immigrant from Hanover, Germany, established Pieper's Settlement in 1850 along the Cibolo. The area was known as Pieper's Settlement until 1880 when a newly constructed post office bore the name of an early landowner who claimed 320 acres in the valley of the Cibolo, Luciano Bulverdo. Pieper constructed what you see here today.