LIST OF EARLY AUTOMOBILES REGISTERED
IN MEDINA COUNTY

In 1907 the counties in Texas began the registration of its vehicles.  The law required that:
 

All owners of automobiles or motor vehicles shall before using such vehicles or machines upon the public roads, streets or driveways, register with the County Clerk of the county in which he resided, his name, which name shall be registered by the County Clerk in consecutive order in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall be numbered in the order of their registration, and it shall be the duty of such owner or owners to display in a conspicuous place on said machine the number so registered, which number shall be in figures not less than six inches in height.  The County Clerk shall be paid by such owners a fee of fifty cents for each machine registered.
 

The registration number displays evolved into what we know today as license plates.  The following is a list of automobiles registered in Medina County.  The period covered by this is probably from 1907 when the Act was instituted to 1923 when all existing license plates were declared void and each person registering his vehicle for 1923 received a new pair of plates.

 (contributed by Doris and Jim Menke)