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| Rivalry
between Lockhart and Luling has cooled
somewhat. Their high schools no longer compete in football and both towns have
spanking-new HEB stores. Life is good in Caldwell County. Barbecue aficionados
from South of I-10 have never seen the need to drive the additional mileage to
participate in the Barbecue Wars in Lockhart, since City Market and Luling
Barbecue know what they're doing. Once called "The Toughest Town in Texas",
time has tenderized Luling to a nice medium-rare. |
| | Luling
street scene
Photo by John Troesser |
| | Luling
roughnecks, circa1935
Courtesy Caldwell County Genealogical Society |
| | Luling
watermelon water tower
TE Photo |
Watermelon Thump Festival
A "world famous" annual event - Last weekend in June
Luling Area Travel Destinations
Hwy 183 S 13 miles to Gonzales
Hwy 183 N 17 miles to Lockhart
Hwy
183 N 47 miles to Austin
I-10
30 miles E to Flatonia.
I-10 59 miles
W to San Antonio
I-10 21 miles W to Seguin, then
Hwy 46 13 miles to New
Braunfels
Hwy 80 20 miles NW to San
Marcos
Luling
Area Chamber of Commerce -
641 East Davis Street In the Historic Walker
Bros. Building, sharing space with the Central Oil Patch Museum
P.O. Box
710 Luling, TX. 78648.
Phone (830) 875-3214
Website: www.bcsnet.net/lulingcc
Caldwell County Genealogical and Historical Society -
This
well-oiled facility is found adjoining the library and can well serve as a model
for other cities concerned about preserving their past.
Where
to Stay > Luling
Hotels |
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A Battle Ax plug Tobacco sign appears in Luling, Texas
Photo by John Troesser,
11-2003 |
©
John Troesser Luling
Texas Forum
Subject:
Morris
Ranch & other places
My wife love going to old places......About
2 weeks ago we went to the Austin,
San Marcos
area (Hill Country) We found Morris
Ranch, no problem with the excellent directions on your website....we were
kind of disappointed that it was all fenced off......the silo was close enough
to the fence to get some good pictures the large barn was just like on the website
but a No Tresspassing sign kept us from getting closer.......the schoolhouse was
incredible but a big gate was in the way I would have love to look inside.......We
went on to San
Marcos, there we found an old hospital that had at one time been converted
into a college fraternity house, but now is abandonded with a somewhat spooky
history of a fraternity ritual that had gone wrong ,maybe true maybe not...( I
read about it in a book called Weird Texas, check it out sometime its a cool book)........Also
we found an abandonded saw mill outside of Luling it was great, [Zedler's
Mills] it was along side the River you can walk right up to it, of course
you wouldn't have wanted to go inside, the historical marker said it had been
abandonded since 1960......As usual I cant say enough good about your website...who
knows where we will go next.......... Thanks. - Rodney Stegall, November 08,
2005Subject:
SARG RECORDS
Hello Historic Luling, My name is Graham C. Marshall and
I live in East Yorkshire, England. For a brief period in the seventies I corresponded
with Charlie Fitch of Sarg Records. Does anyone know anything about him? Is he
still alive? I should be very grateful if you could find someone who could enlighten
me. Thanks - Graham, January 05, 2006 |
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Oil
rigs in Luling
Photos courtesy Margie Warwas |
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