Veterans Plaza in Boerne has been known over the years as Public Square, Military Place, and Veterans Plaza. Its original memorial, later known as the Graham Monument, was provided by Henry Graham, a prominent local businessman who worked in real estate, insurance, and banking and also served as County Tax Assessor and Deputy Sheriff. Erected in the center of Military Place, the monument honored the 12 Kendall County servicemen who died in "the War to End all Wars," and was dedicated on March 6, 1923. In the early 1990s, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 688 and Boerne Post 228 helped revitalize the plaza, and local sculptor Jay Hester created a bronze sculpture representing the branches of the armed services that was placed atop the original monument and unveiled on Veterans Day, November 11, 1992. Later, the City of Boerne, VFW posts, and local citizens carried out a full renovation of the plaza, replacing the deteriorating limestone monument and making additional improvements, and the plaza was rededicated on Veterans Day, November 11, 2014. A panoramic photograph taken on dedication day by San Antonio photographer Eugene Goldbeck captured more than 850 people, military participants sent by Major General E.M. Lewis, and the agricultural character of Kendall County at the time. The plaza's broader historical context includes Kendall County's frontier settlement, Civil War Unionist history, railroad and resort era, service in the Spanish-American War, World War One, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and local remembrance of those who died.