Our campground was established in 1987 and is located just south of the Second Crossing Bridge. The property was originally part of the KL Ranch, established by my Grandfather, Robert Bretzke, in 1897.
Our customers are primarily family groups and many return every year. When you operate a camping facility along the Guadalupe River, rain forecasts are not taken lightly and precautions are always taken. [more]
I was born in 1952 in New Braunfels.
Throughout the 1950s my father sharecropped cotton and corn on land which included the present day Sattler VFW. Most of my 12 siblings attended Mountain Valley School. During the school year, we took off time to work the harvest.
We also had a large garden. In the sixties, the family relocated down River Road between 3rd and 4th Crossings. The work was hard, everyone knew everyone and it was generally a pleasant place to live. [more]
Dorothy Henze, 84, still lives in the home she was raised in on land that has been in her family for 135 years.
The land, 55 acres just off Texas 46, was purchased in the 1850s by her great-grandfather, a German immigrant. [more]
GUADALUPE COUNTY — Off an old country road, about three miles east of Interstate 35, the headstone of 10-day-old Ida Bartels rests under a Cedar tree, where it has been since 1877.
Just a few feet from the infant's grave are 10 other eroded headstones inscribed in German. Some date back more than 200 years and mark the final resting place for some of the earliest settlers who established farms just outside of New Braunfels. [more]
On their half-acre of land in northwest Comal County, Lee Byrd and his family relish in the simple things provided by the peaceful country setting: riding bicycles, sitting outside talking and star gazing in evening.
Byrd, 44, purchased his property on Hoffman Lane, just west of Farm-to-Market 1102, to avoid noise from the city that he said would impede on his family's ability to enjoy the country atmosphere. That was 16 years ago, and Byrd admits that he knew the "city would one day come out my way." [more]
The final route for the highly anticipated outer loop around the city could be affected by almost 2,000 acres of land along Interstate-35 in New Braunfels owned by real estate investors from the Texas General land office.
State, county and city officials engaging in preliminary plans to construct an outer loop around New Braunfels are mulling over the possibility of scoring a valuable chunk of property from the land office and a San Antonio developer — free of charge. [more]
