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Welcome to the Kenedy Home page. The Kenedy Home page provides as much information as possible on Kenedy. Knowing Kenedy’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Kenedy’s Home page, you will also find Kenedy’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Kenedy has a population of 3394. 51.2% of Kenedy’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.8 are female. 41.1% of Kenedy is married and 62.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $73,778, and the average rent is $950. Household median income in Kenedy is $36,823, and the individual median income is $24,796. Kenedy’s Ethnic is the following: White(85%), Hispanic(84.6%), Other(9%), Black(2.1%), Multiple(1.9%), Asian(1.7%), Native(0.3%).


In the early 1900s many of Kenedy's gunfighter shootings caused the town to be nicknamed "Six Shooter Junction".During World War II, the Kenedy Allen Detention Camp was located near the outskirts of the town, on a former Civilian Conservation Corps site. Though it later served as a prisoner of war camp, it started as an internment camp for people of German, Italian and Japanese ancestry deported from Latin America, as well as some who were long-term residents of the U.S.


The camp opened in April 1942, when the first group of Latin American deportees arrived: 456 Germans, 156 Japanese and 14 Italians. Despite State Department prisoner exchanges, in which German and Japanese Latin Americans were "repatriated" and traded for U.S. citizens in Axis custody, Kenedy's population swelled to 2,007 by October 1943: 1,168 Germans, 705 Japanese, 72 Italians, and 62 "miscellaneous".


The 705 of Japanese descent included U.S. civilians. In 1944, the remaining internees were transferred to other facilities, and by September it had been converted to a German POW camp; beginning in July 1945, the camp was also used to house Japanese POWs. The camp was closed at the end of the war, in September 1945.The John B.


Connally Unit, a state prison, is located 2 miles (3 km) south of the city limits. On December 13, 2000, a group called the Texas Seven escaped from that prison. They would go on a deadly crime spree before being caught. On July 24, 2019, the Karnes Countywide Newspaper featured a story on a Kenedy house with ties to a world famous San Antonio landmark.


Blueprints by Hugman-Silber Architects were discovered in the cedar closet of the house. The blueprints were drawn and traced by Robert H.H. Hugman, the acknowledged visionary behind the San Antonio River Walk.


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