Comfort Historic District (Comfort, Texas)
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N 29° 58.026 W 098° 54.475
14R E 508884 N 3315143
The Comfort Historic District in Comfort, Texas, USA represents a slice of relatively untouched Texas residential and commercial architecture between 1854 and 1954. It is listed in the US National Registry of Historical Places.
Waymark Code: WMRRKQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/29/2016
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"The Comfort Historic District incorporates much of the town site founded in 1854 when several German immigrant families moved into the area. By 1860, Comfort was a flourishing town with small buildings clustered around two town squares. One of the town squares remains intact today. Many of the buildings display fachwerk--a traditional German building technique associated with Germanic settlements consisting of heavy timber framing and diagonal bracing, with an infill of limestone. Examples of this unique building type can be seen on Main and High streets. The district also includes buildings designed in popular 19th-century architectural styles, including Italianate and Queen Anne. The Civil War era had a tremendous impact on the town of Comfort. Texas' secession and the Civil War created tension for the Germans. The majority of the immigrants abhorred slavery and were opposed to the State's secession from the Union. In 1862, 40 anti-secessionists attempted to join the Union forces, but were attacked by a vastly larger Confederate force and massacred. The majority of the 40 men were from Comfort. In 1865 the remains of the men were brought home to Comfort and in 1866, a monument known as the Treue der Union was erected in their memory."
Source: US
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