San Angelo woman shares a history story that lies within her very own home.
SAN ANGELO — San Angelo residents know the name, Koenigheim Street, all too well. However, what some may not know is how that name came to be. One West Texas woman is trying to preserve that history .
“This home was built in the late 1800 by Koenigheim and it’s on the corner of Concho Avenue and Koenigheim, so they named the street after him; and he was one of the originators of San Angelo,” Barbara Strain said.
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“The story that we were told is that he and his wife went out one evening to the opera house where Casual Pint is. They came home, and he decided he was going to stay downstairs and his wife went to bed. If you go through this door to the left, there's the stair well. In the morning she work up and he was dead at the end of the stairs with a bullet hole through his head and the $20,000 they had in the safe was gone, “ Strain said.
Strain explains that she feels like she is reliving history as she continues to develop Concho Aveune with her own two businesses.
“Privileged to live in his house and work on that street, the things that he dreamed of 100 years ago,“ Strain said.
