The famous Casino opens with a German performance on Market Street. Contract is let for the now-destroyed courthouse on Soledad Street. Ben Thompson is acquitted of murder by the Jury in the District Court. First ground broken for the laying of the mesquite blocks on Alamo Plaza. First stone street crossings are made.
Buffalo hides and meat clutter the market.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church building completed. County votes to provide railroad subsidy to the Pierce interests. This procured the railroad at last for San Antonio. Completed in the following year. The Alamo Literary Society adopts a plan for a hall to be erected on a plot of ground furnished by Mr. Samuel A. Maverick, on Houston Street, in 1872.