Krause House/Mann's Crossing Post Office
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N 29° 18.324 W 098° 39.930
14R E 532484 N 3241868
The location of the Krause House/Mann's Crossing Post Office historical marker is 8551 Old Pearsall Road, San Antonio, TX 78252. Old Pearsall Road is also called FM 2536.
Waymark Code: WM150YQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/24/2021
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
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The Krause House/Mann's Crossing Post Office is fenced off but the view of the Texas historical marker is visible from the fence line along the edge of the drainage area along the Old Pearsall Road. The historical marker faced toward the road.

This large house is the result of may home extension additions added over time. This feature of the different building styles is one of the supporting reasons this house qualified for a state marker.

Anton Krause and his wife Johanna use their house as the local post office in the mid to late 1800s. They also supported the local Texas Rangers by letting them use a portion of their house.

This house was designated as a family land heritage farm in 1975 and was designated as a recorded Texas historic landmark in 1999. Thus, this marker is placed in the yard of this house.

Link to Texas State Historical Association's webpage about Mann's Crossing and this Krause House:
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Marker Number: 11747

Marker Text:
Anton F. Krause and Johanna Roesler emigrated from Austria to Texas in 1854. Like many new arrivals, they walked most of the way from the Texas coast to San Antonio, where they were married in the San Fernando Church in May 1855. In 1875 they sold their San Antonio store and saloon and moved with their six children to southwestern Bexar County near Mann's Crossing.

The family purchased 101 acres in 1875 and a smaller tract including this site in 1876. They built a small log cabin and stone kitchen that year with the help of neighbors, including family friend and stonemason Henry Nentwich, whose daughter Elizabeth later married the Krauses' son Charles. The logs were hewn from local elm trees and the sandstone was found nearby. Additions were made as the family grew over the years.

From January 1879 to November 1880 and again from September to December 1886, Anton Krause served as postmaster of Mann's Crossing, using his house as the post office. Krause and his sons also were active in law enforcement, and the house was used by Texas Rangers and federal agents to hold prisoners at various times.

Typical of the gradual development of rural farmsteads evolving from a single pen log cabin, this house includes typical features of a vernacular farmhouse such as the original log core structure, board-and-batten siding on extensions, standing seam metal roof and box eaves. Its very survival is historically significant. The Krause land was designated a family land heritage farm in 1975.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1999
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