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Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church
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Cherry Spring
- History in a Pecan ShellCherry
Spring was a stop along the San Antonio-El
Paso road and had a moderate success taking care of the needs of travelers.
The community dates from the late 1840s / early 1850s when German settlers left
the safety of Fredericksburg to strike
out on their own. Dietrich Rode and William Kothe are credited with being town
founders. A Lutheran church was built there in 1849.
A post office was
opened by 1858, and within two years there were over 200 people - three quarters
of them German immigrants who farmed and/or kept sheep. Famed German colonist
and Indian negotiator John O. Meusebach was buried at Cherry Spring in 1897.
Without
a railroad and far from large cities, Cherry Spring never grew past it's initial
growth spurt - and by 1912 there still weren't enough people to warrant a post
office. In 1933 the population was reportedly 40 - but in the 1960s it fell to
less than 10. It increased to 75 about the time Fredericksburg
was being "discovered" in the late 1960s and the same figure is given in 2004.
Detailed
TXDoT maps of Gillespie County show no fewer than twelve cemeteries within eight
miles of Cherry Springs.
Cherry
Spring Texas ForumSubject:
German
Gravestone |
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Old Cherry Spring School
Photo courtesy Justin
Parson, April 2006 | |
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Old Cherry Spring School and marker
Photo courtesy Justin
Parson, April 2006 | |
| | The
Marschall-Meusebach Cemetery
Photo courtesy Justin
Parson, April 2006 | |
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cool little cemetery surrounded by a stone wall" - Justin
Parson, April 2006 | |
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