Tag: Olmos Park
Olmos Park is a highly affluent city located within San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,343 at the 2000 census. The city is the second wealthiest location in the San Antonio metropolitan area after Hill Country Village. The community is mostly noted for its large Mediterranean style homes, tree-lined streets, and secluded park-like setting.
Susan O. Gragg was elected mayor of Olmos Park on May 17, 2010. She won 221 votes in early voting and 102 votes in the general election, for a total of 323 votes.
Olmos Park was developed in the 1920s as an exclusive suburb of San Antonio, which completely surrounds it. The city occupied the site where Camp John Wise was built in 1917. Camp John Wise was a US Army balloonist training site. The camp shut down in 1919 when the balloonist training was moved to nearby Brooks Field.
Sometimes confused with the City of Olmos Park, Olmos Park Terrace, was developed by the same developer a few years later in the 1930s as…
