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After the Civil War, reports indicate Black Texas German communities in every county of the German belt, also known as the Texas German Country, running from Houston to the Hills Region. [11] [12] For Black Texans, speaking Texas German was a means of social mimicry and protection. [10] Doris Williams, an African American in Bastrop County ...
As of the U.S. 2000 Census, some 1,035 people report speaking German at home in Fredericksburg, [11] the town with the largest community of Texas German speakers, representing 12.48% of the total population, 840 in New Braunfels, [12] 150 in Schulenburg, [12] 85 in Stonewall, [13] 70 in Boerne, [12] 65 in Harper, [14] 45 in Comfort [15] and 19 in Weimar, [12] all of which except for ...
The town was subsequently founded in 1889 by German Catholic settlers Carl and Emil Flusche, who invited other German Catholics to join them. [4] The town was originally to be called "Westphalia", but since the name Westphalia, Texas, was already taken, Muenster was selected instead in honor of Münster, the capital of Westphalia, but these ...
On December 15, 1847, a petition was submitted to create Gillespie County. In 1848, the legislature formed Gillespie County from Bexar and Travis Counties. While the signers were overwhelmingly German immigrants, names also on the petition were Castillo, Pena, Munos, and a handful of non-German Hispanic names.
Boerne (/ ˈ b ɜːr n i / BURN-ee) [3] [4] is a city in and the county seat of Kendall County, Texas, United States, [5] in the Texas Hill Country.Boerne is known for its German-Texan history, named in honor of German author and satirist Ludwig Börne by the German Founders of the town. [6]
"Texas Towns: From Abner to Zipperlandville" by Don Blevins, revised by Paris Permenter and John Bigley (Lone Star Books): A 2018 glove-compartment guide with helpfully numbered maps and stories ...
This page is one of two listing the National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas's Central region. The Central region is an area of 20 counties defined by the Texas Comptroller for economic reporting in 2022, as mapped here.
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Texas, listed by county. This may include disincorporated communities, towns with no incorporated status, ghost towns , or census-designated places .