A place called Cain City - Fredericksburg Standard

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fbgstandard01, on July 13, 2016

A place called Cain City

A few road and street signs are all that’s left of Cain City, a commercial center and resort town once known to thousands, now all but forgotten. Cain City began as the dream of an ambitious Kansas businessman and promoter named Joseph Stinson. In 1913, Stinson, then living in San Antonio, heard about

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