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ART, TEXAS
Mason County, Texas
Hill Country
Including the suburbs of East Art and West Art
Highway 29
26 miles West of Llano
7.5 miles East of Mason
Population: Dispersed
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Church
and bluebonnets
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2004 |
Mason County
is included in the most heavily populated German part of the Hill
Country, with the city of Mason being the northern most town of any
real population. Mason, Gillespie, Kendall and Comal Counties comprise
almost the entire German settlement area, with just a trace of overflow
into Blanco, Kerr, and Llano Counties.
Art is found on detailed maps of Mason County just East of Mason
(town). It will appear surrounded by five little crosses - a cluster
of family cemeteries.
Art along with Hilda, Loyal
Valley and Doss still have a number
of beautiful utilitarian limestone buildings. The Germans settling
this area were German Methodists, not Catholic or Lutheran Germans.
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The
1890 United Methodist Church in Art
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2004 |
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“Downtown
Art”
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone, August 2005 |
Kothmann
Grave Site, and Marker
Photos courtesy Elwin Jensen, March 2007 |
Although
much can be said about Art, we would invite the serious reader to
try to locate: Yesterday in the Texas Hill Country by Dr. Gilbert
J. Jordan, Texas A & M Press, 1978.
This small, very entertaining book includes the tiniest details of
life in Art and the other small German Hill Country communities that
no longer appear on highway maps.
The 160 page book. contains details on well-digging, sausage making,
courtship rituals, old-world customs and lessons in German-English
language compromise. |
| Yesterday
in the Texas Hill Country |
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