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Marker No: 10119

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.280390, -98.876396

Location: ​315 West Main Street, Fredericksburg

Marker Text: ​Small townhouses built by German settlers who lived in distant rural areas. Used over weekends by families while they traded or attended church.
   A typical early Sunday House had one room with a lean-to kitchen and a half story above, which was reached by outside stairway or ladder. Built during 1890s-1920s, most Sunday Houses were frame but some were rock.
​   Homes found use during school sessions, periods of religious instruction or serious illness. Some of the larger ones made comfortable retirement homes for elderly German farmers. (1970)