Comal County Historical Markers

NUMBER MARKERS IN COUNTY - 142

Have-96  Need- 46

Comal County was named by early Spanish explorers to this region, Comal meaning flat dish in Spanish. The county seat is New Braunfels. We have been visiting Comal County since I first came to live in the States and I think I could happily live in this hill country county. We stayed in a Gruene Mansion cabin the weekend immigration lost the documents they had asked for and rescinded my work permit, I did the chicken dance at Wurst Fest while Steve looked at me like I was a little crazy, we spent one of my birthdays celebrating at the historic Faust Hotel and received a lovely surprise on arrival from my staff, of a gift card for the attached restaurant, we also stayed there when we saw Steely Dan in Selma. We had a family vacation with 17 of us and four generations in a great house on the Guadalupe River. I  went tubing for the first time on the Guadalupe. So, I have a lot of wonderful memories coming from time spent in Comal County. For me, New Braunfels retains a small town fee,l while being close to Austin and San Antonio. Unfortunately (at least I think it's unfortunate because I don't want it to change) a lot of people love Comal County too, it is at present the 6th fastest growing county in the nation. 
   The challenge with Comal Counties historical markers is private property and it makes sense as this is an old largely German settlement area with many historical properties being on acreage. What I really just need to do is sit down one day and start calling owners and asking permission to take a photo and see what we can access and then tell Steve we are going. Comal County has inventoried their historical markers themselves and this does help because at least you know the house still exists. Comal County Historical Commission is also extremely active and adds several new markers each year, so even though it has only been a few years since we last spent time there, we have many new markers to capture. 
  The Moeller House medallion & plate has been missing for many years, German pioneers in Texas was missing but has recently been rededicated. 

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 29th June, 2019 - Not too much has changed since the last time I looked at Comal County except Comal County Historical Commission has been very busy they have added and approved many more historical markers. I do since need to make contact with property owners to try to add the old markers to this page but that takes time and it's a case of so many markers so little time. 😩

28th July, 2019 - I don't usually have cause to review counties so close together as I have this time. As you would suspect not too much has changed within a month. The reason for this review is because with had reason to pick up a few markers in Comal County on our way to San Antonio for an interview the next day, so we didn't have time for private property or in town markers on this trip. It did get us talking about taking a day and trying to contact at least a few of the property owners to take another stab at completing Comal County, there is no other county I can think of that has quite so many of these older hard to access historical properties than Comal County. I'd really try Gennaro's Trattoria in Canyon Lake so maybe we can just make a day of it. It is after all one of my favorite counties. 

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14th July, 2020 - So we briefly wandered into Comal County, just around the Fischer area grabbed three of the markers there. Of course Comal County has as usual been busy and plans to add five new markers that are listed below but not up yet. We have yet to attempt the many markers on private property. 

711 Ranch
Adam Becker Homestead
Agricultural Society of Fischer
Anhalt Halle and the Germania Farmer Verein
Arnold-Rauch-Brandt Homestead
August and Karoline Tolle House
August Dietz Cottage 
Braschler House
Breustedt House
Breustedt Kitchen 
Carl Heinrich Guenther
Carolina Schwab Grave Site 
Cypress Bend Park 
Church Hill School Building
Comal Community
Comal County
Comal County Courthouse
Comal County, C. S. A. 
Comal County Fair
Dr. Theodore Koester Home
Early Settlers Home
Eiband & Fischer General Mercantile
Emmie Seele Faust Memorial Library
Erhardt Neuse House
Ernst and Antoinette Gruene House
Esser's Crossing at Wesson
Faust Street Bridge 
Ferdinard J. Lindheimer
First Patented Wire Fence 
First Protestant Church
First United Methodist Church
Fischer Cemetery
Fischer Homestead
Fischer House
Fischer Store
Founders Oak
Franz Heimer
German Pioneers in Texas
German Pioneers Monument 
Gruene 
Gruene Cotton Gin 
Gruene Mansion
Gruene's Hall 
Haag Cemetery
H. D. Gruene Mercantile 
Heimer Cemetery
Heinrich Bevenroth Home 
Heinrich Mordhorst 
Hermann Jonas Homestead
Herman Steele
Hinmann House
Home of Ferdinand Lindheimer 
Home of Ferdinand Lindheimer 
Home of George Wilkins Kendall 
Homesite of Joann and Gertrude Walzem
Indian Village 
International & Great Northern Railroad in New Braunfels 
Jacob's Creek School Teacherage
Jefferson Davis Highway No. 2
Johann Michael Jahn
Joseph Scheel House
Junction of Two Important Rivers, the Guadalupe and the Comal
Karl Haas Cemetery
Kneupper Chapel
Koch Cemetery
Landa Park 
Louis Henne Co. 
Main Plaza Bandstand
Meriwether Milling
Mill Street Telegraph Station
Mission Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe
Mission Valley School 
Natural Bridge Caverns
Near River Crossing Used by New Braunfels' First Settlers 
New Braunfels
New Braunfels
New Braunfels 1918 First Station
New Braunfels Academy
New Braunfels, County Seat of Comal County
New Braunfels Post Office
New Braunfels Schuetzen Verein 
New Braunfels Woolen Mill
Old Carl W. Groos Home
Old Krause Building
Old Lex Homestead
Old New Braunfels High School
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old Schmidt Home
Old Scholl House
Original Gruene Mercantile
Original Site of Mountain Valley School
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cemetery
Pantermuel House
Phoenix Saloon
Pioneer Home (Gene Home) 
Plumeyer Bakery Building
Posey Cemetery
Richard E. and Ella Sodke Kloeppler House
Riley's Tavern
Sattler
Sattler Family Cemetery
Sattler Post Office 
Sophienburg Hill
Schoenthal School
Site of Early Mill and Factory John F. Torrey
Site of New Braunfels Academy
Site of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Mission - Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission 
Site of Old Schmitz Hotel 
Site of The German Protestant Church
Slumber Falls Camp
Smithson Valley Cemetery
Specht's Crossing
Spirit of the American Doughboy
​Spring Branch Post Office
St. Joseph's Cemetery
St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Startzville Community
Stephen Klein Home
Texas Germans in the Civil War 
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul
The Eggling Hotel 
The Faust Hotel
The Grotto, Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church 
The Hofheinz House
The Joseph Klein House
​The Moeller House
The New Braunfels Cemetery
The Voigt House
The Wilhelm Weldner Homestead
Ullrich Home
Waisenhaus (Orphanage) 
Walzem Chapel 
Weisser Dairy Farm-Pfeiffer Ranch
West End Park and Dance Hall 
Wilheim Weidner Cemetery
​Windwehen Home
​Wurstfest
Zions Kirche