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TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS

Gillespie County Historical Markers

NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY - 153
Have -141 Need- 12
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Named for a soldier in the Mexican- American War, Robert Addison Gillespie. The county seat is Fredericksburg.
   Gillespie County is one of my favorite counties. When we were first traveling around Texas it was one place that I asked Steve to bring me back to. We’ve been here numerous times stayed in numerous hotels and bed and breakfasts. We have spent a Christmas here, a Fourth of July, an Oktoberfest,  I brought my dad and niece here when they were visiting from Australia. Aimie said she had the best gummy bears at the Amish store she had ever tasted, she should know she’s a connoisseur of gummy bears. She also really enjoyed Rustlin's Rob and even though she had a huge breakfast she enjoyed many of their tasty offerings.  I still enjoy going. Fredericksburg is touristy but it still has a nice feel to it. I could easily live here but it’s gotten a little bit busy for Steve but it remains special to me.  We have favorite restaurants here the first being Porky’s Which is a hamburger place with odd hours but really great burgers. The Rathskeller is also been one of our favorites over the years. Last time we visited the Auslander for the first time and really liked that too.  I could go on and on. These are the places we have stayed and a quick review :- 
                              Rose Hill Manor  -   I loved this place, but one of things we liked about it, no longer exists. You are out on a property, so in order to go to dinner you have to drive, when we stayed there they served dinner, which was a really nice end to a long day, marker hunter because it was only a short walk from our cable to the dining room pictured below.  The manor itself is also below. 
                               Peaceful Hills -  We spend Christmas here one year, it was cold and decorated and very romantic with a heart-shaped tub. We grilled under the stars. It is a little way out of town but in this exactly what we were looking for, as Steve's family had already done the big family gathering for Thanksgiving.  It also started my hobby of trying to collect a Christmas ornament from each county we visit as the hostess left us a gift of one. 
                             Loeffler- Weber Haus- Right on Main Street, close to restaurants and shopping. Also had a nice hot tub. This one actually has a historical marker. 
​                              Cotton Gin Village -  A little ways out of town, we have stayed here a couple of times, once to watch 4th of July fireworks. The cabins bed is pictured below and it has a very nice restaurant (The Cabernet Grill) attached, which I appreciate because at the end of the day neither of us want to get back in the car. It is on a main road but once you out back where the cabins are it does not seem like it. 
                                 Weinheimer Cabin -  This where we stayed with our niece  who was visiting from Australia. This place fit the bill for this visit as it felt like a farm stay while being close to town. For this stay we were given breakfast vouchers and could choose from several different restaurants. I would say, this is really only a two person cottage. 
       There was one place we stayed for Oktoberfest and even though there are hundreds of places to stay in Fredericksburg it was slim pickings  on this particular weekend, we stayed in a place outside of town and it was really not great (Steve till scowls if I mention it) (breakfast with the family 😐). I'm not going to mention the name because it no longer exists, which goes to show if the accommodation is not great it will not survive. 
       Luckenbach is also a great stop, there is also live music and it is just unique Texas.                                              

     As to the markers Gillespie County is difficult, it’s an old German area with lots of private property markers. Surprisingly there are not many missing markers just markers we have yet to get to. H. C. Keese Home marker was not visible on the outside of the house so we believe that one to be missing. The Lyndon Baines Johnston House is missing it's plate.  I would to be able complete this set, but a lot of these old homes are on very expensive property and the new owners do not have any personal  history with markers so it may be very difficult but it's fun to keep trying. 

14th February, 2020​ - Unfortunately on this review I have discovered no new information. 
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10th November, 2018 - On this occasion, we visited because we had arranged to meet Reta Killingsworth to capture the Brodbeck Family Cemetery, so it was a flying trip to revisit some of the sites we had previously been unsuccessful with and maybe grab a few of the new markers. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express and this is the only time we have ever done this in Fredericksburg, it worked for this trip but it's not something I ready want to do again as it made for a generic type of stay. I love the quirky bed and breakfasts and the feel of staying in the Hill Country of being part of the landscape that you don't get in a chain hotel. We did discover a new favorite restaurant that I'm sure we will revisit, Pasta Bella. It was like sitting an old nonna's kitchen, totally unpretentious, but the food was really good, I don't know how we have missed this one thus far, Steve insisted I add he found this one. 
      The markers, we managed to add 8 markers that we didn't have, retake a few that not good, and add one that was previously missing and has since reappeared.  I know there are days where we have taken 50 new markers in a day but for Gillespie, this is a very successful trip because now every marker on the list is something we have already looked for at least once.  Some anomalies are as follows, we looked for the Dambach-Besier Home for the longest time, it is the pioneer museum entrance but the 18 x 28 subject is no longer on it. The Andreas and Frederike Lindig Farmstead was moved to Stonewall and is the Stonewall Heritage Center but again the marker is not at the site
, I will investigate both further.H.C. Keese House is the house where the marker happily returned. We got a much better picture of the Morris Ranch Schoolhouse which delighted me. We found a marker that I did not even know we were missing because we got confused by all the Cherry Spring and Cherry Mountain markers of which there are three, I always thought there was three but I thought two were at the same site and one was missing, sort of embarrassing ☺️. There are 12 left so with the help of Gillespie County Historical Commission we hope to capture the all,  even if it is only one marker per visit. 
Adolph Gold House
Albert Lee Patton Building
Albert Nebgen House
Andreas and Frederike Lindig Farmstead

Baethge-Behrend Homestead
Bethany Lutheran Church

Birthplace of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN
Brodbeck Family Cemetery
Cherry Mountain School Complex
Cherry Spring Schoolhouse
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church

Christian Crenwelge Place
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
County Jail of 1885

Crabapple School
Cross Mountain
Dambach-Besier Home
Dangers Stone House

D. C. Riley House
Diedrich Rode Complex
Domino Parlor
Doss School

Duecker Family Homestead
Durst House
Edward and Minnie Stein House

Ellebracht-Moritz Homestead
Emil Weber House
Emma and Anna Metzger

Enchanted Rock
Engel Family
Felix Van Der Stucken Home
First Baptist Church of Harper
First Methodist Church of Fredericksburg
Frank Van Der Strucken
Fredericksburg College Building
Fredericksburg Lodge No. 794, A.F. & A.M.
Fredericksburg Social Turn Verein

Gillespie County
Gold-Grobe House
Gruen-Doebbler Homestead

Guenther’s Live Oak Mill
Gun Cap Factory
Harper Community Park
Harper Independent School District
Harper Presbyterian Church
H. C. Keese Home
Heinrich and Johanna Borchers Kensing
Heinrich Bierschwale House
Henry Basse House

Henry Cordes House
Hill Crest Cemetery

Hoerster Building
Holy Ghost (Heilige Geist) Evangelical Protestant Church
Homestead of Karl Itz

Hugo and Anna Gold Crenwelge House
In Memoriam to the Founders and Pioneers of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County
Jacob Neffendorf
Jakob (Jacob) Brodbeck

John O. Meusebach
John Peter Tatsch Home, 1856
J.W. and Ruth Baines House
Karl Kensing Cemetery

Kiehne-Hermann Home
Klingelhoeffer House

Kloth-Ludwig Home
Kuenemann House
Lange’s Mill
Lehne-Itz House
Little Rock House
Liveoak Creek Log Cabin

Loeffler-Weber House
Lower South Grape Creek School

Luckenbach

Luckenbach School
Ludwig Doebbler House

Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson

Maier-Alberthal Building
Major Israel M. Nunez
Market Square (Mark Platz)
McKee-Roberts-Baumann House

Meckel-Hanus Building
Morris Ranch Schoolhouse
Moritz-Hitzfeld-Jacoby House

Mosel-Jordan-Duecker Haus
Moseley Log Cabin

Mueller-Petmecky House
Nimitz Hotel
Old Central Drugstore aka Oliver and William Schneider Building
Old Cherry Spring School (Das Alte Schulhaus)
Old Gillespie County Courthouse
Old Kammlah House

Old St. Mary's Church (Die Alte Kirche)
Otfrid Hans Freiherr von Meusebach
Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church

Pape Log Cabin
Pedernales Rural School
Philipp Hartmann Family Cemetery

Pioneer Schandua House
Rausch Ranch Home
Ressmann-Boos House

Riley-Enderlin House
Schmidt-Dietz Building
Schmidt-Gold House
Schneider-Klingelhoefer House

Schwarz Building
Site of Fort Martin Scott
Site of The Andreas Lindig Lime Kiln
Site of Zodiac

Site of the McDonald Massacre
Squaw Creek Cemetery
Squaw Creek Primitive Baptist Church
St. Anthony Catholic Parish

St. Barnabas Episcopal Church
St. James Lutheran Church

St. John’s Lutheran Church
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Stonewell Community Cemetery

St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery
St. Paul Lutheran Church
St. Peter Lutheran Church
Sunday House

Texas Ranger General E. Kirby Smith, C.S.A.
The August Hennersdorf House
The Burrer Home
The Carl Henke Home
The Christian Kraus Homestead
The Easter Fires
The F. W. Arhelger Shop
The Grapetown School
The Johann Joseph Knopp House

The Marschall-Meusebach Cemetery
The Meinhardt-Pfeil Home

The Patton Home
The Pinta Trail

The Schandua Building
The William Rausch House
Trinity Cemetery

Trinity Lutheran Church
Vereins Kirche
Vogel Sunday House
Wahrmund Millinery, Moellendorf-Dietz Bakery
Wahrmund-Priess House

Walch Home
Walter-Jenschke Sunday House

Weber Das Keller Haus

Welgenhausen Ranch
Wilke Cemetery 

William S. Dedmon
William Wahrmund House
Williams Creek School

Wunderlich Houses
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church








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  • Texas Historical Markers
  • Greenbrier Cemetery
  • Wilson Chapel Methodist Church
  • Marian Anderson High School
  • Alfred M. Hallmark
  • Frank Mulder Gossett
  • No 57: Old San Antonio Road
  • Zephyr Cemetery
  • Zephyr Gospel Tabernacle
  • First Baptist Church of Zephyr
  • Military Road
  • Zephyr Presbyterian Church
  • Burkett Pecan Tree
  • Hittson Ranch
  • Callahan City Cemetery
  • Admiral Baptist Church
  • Belle Plaine Cemetery
  • Ross Cemetery
  • Callahan County
  • The Prew House
  • Brooke Smith
  • Minnie Fisher Cunningham
  • Ebenezer Baptist Church
  • Dodge
  • Site of Andrew Female College
  • Glendale Cemetery
  • Community of Fodice
  • Holy Rosary Catholic Parish
  • Pegleg Crossing on the San Saba
  • B. T. Brown House
  • German Methodist Church/First Fire Station
  • Providence Church and Cemetery
  • Packsaddle Mountain
  • Homesite of W. F. Heller, Pioneer Farmer
  • The Bosque-Larios Expedition
  • No. 60 Old San Antonio Road
  • No. 56 Old San Antonio Road
  • No. 59 Old San Antonio Road
  • Texas Central Railroad
  • Center City Community
  • Orla
  • Fairview Cemetery
  • Leon County Courthouse
  • Anderson County in the Civil War
  • Judge H.T. Brown
  • Washington County, C.S.A.
  • Leander
  • Oveta Culp Hobby and the Women's Army Corps
  • Jacob Haller House
  • James M. Holt
  • Washington-on-the Brazos
  • Donigan House
  • Fort Worth Stock Yards Entrance
  • Smithfield Baptist Church
  • Elite Cafe
  • Joseph Brooks Home
  • Phair Cemetery
  • Robert Justus Kleberg
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