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Crabapple is an unincorporated farming and ranching community 10.5 miles (16.9 km) north of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, Texas, United States, located on Crabapple Creek, [3] about halfway between Fredericksburg and Enchanted Rock State Park [4] at an elevation of 1,775 feet.
The individual properties include a National Historic Landmark that is also a State Antiquities Landmark, two additional State Antiquities Landmarks, and six Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024.
Early native inhabitants were the Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Lipan Apache peoples. [3] In 1842, the Adelsverein organized in Germany to promote emigration to Texas. [4] The Fisher–Miller Land Grant set aside three million acres (12,000 km 2) to settle 600 families and single men of German, Dutch, Swiss, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian ancestry in Texas. [5]
Covering approximately 2,807 acres (1,136 ha), the Klein Frankreich Rural Historic District is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northwest of the city of Fredericksburg, in Gillespie County, Texas. The name Klein Frankreich translates from the original German language as "Little France", and the area was so named because the initial settlers (ca. 1846 ...
A father died Saturday after he jumped into a North Texas creek to try to save his drowning 6-year-old son, and the boy’s body was recovered on Sunday, authorities said.
North of Crabapple, the highway passes by the Enchanted Rock State Natural Area. Near Enchanted Rock, RM 965 turns northeast and enters Llano County before ending at an intersection with SH 16 . RM 965 was designated on November 23, 1948, as Farm to Market Road 965 ( FM 965 ), running north from US 87/US 290 11.8 miles (19.0 km) to a point near ...
Crabapple School is located at 14671 Lower Crabapple Road in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was consolidated with Fredericksburg Independent School District in 1957. The building is now used as a community center. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gillespie County, Texas on May 6, 2005. [2]
Cave Creek School is located at 470 Cave Creek Road, in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. Built in 1881, it was consolidated with Fredericksburg Independent School District in 1950. The building is now used as a community center. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in Texas on December 29, 2004.