November 12 in San Antonio history…

1872
The Vance House is opened as a hotel.  It was the military headquarters before, and some years after, the Civil War.  Its location is now the Gunter Hotel.

1895
San Antonio citizens are complaining because the city has never had a genuine macadam (asphalt) street.  The process of piling up loads of dirt and gravel on the streets, rolling them flat and calling the street paved has been termed “ridiculous.”

1915
The Stinson School of Flying, the first flight school operated by a woman, is opened by Emma Beaver Stinson.  Its heritage lives on in the current airport code for Stinson Airport, SSF.