SCHUMANNSVILLE — Johann Gotthulf and Wilhelmine Altwein moved from Prussia to Texas in 1851.
They settled on a farm on the west bank of the Guadalupe River, which today is a narrow section of the waterway below Lake Dunlap dam and Lake McQueeney Dam. [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]
