New Braunfels First Settlers
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vhasler
N 29° 41.802 W 098° 06.354
14R E 586496 N 3285512
The nearby bridge replaced what was a difficult crossing of the Guadalupe River for the early settlers. The marker describes the early German settlers.
Waymark Code: WMKZB8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/20/2014
Views: 3
Located at the corner of Porter and McKinna Streets in front of the Mission Valley Mills. On the east end of the Faust Street bridge.
Marker Number: 14129
Marker Text:
Near River Crossing Used by New Braunfels' First Settlers
At the crossing of the San Antonio-Nacogdches Road on the Guadalupe River (used earlier by some of Texas' most famous trail-blazers) about 200 German colonists ended a journey that had begun six months before, in Europe. Here, on Good Friday,1845, they founded the town of New Braunfels. Named for the estate of Prince Solms-Braunfels, the commissioner-general of the German Emigration Society.
Part of a wave of German colonists, 1844-1847, this small group and others like it have left a distinctive mark on the heritage and culture of Texas.
(1969)
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