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"Henze Post Office on
old Joe Thurman place - 1904. Washed away in flood in 1935."
Courtesy
The Rocksprings Woman's Club, from their book "The History of Edwards County"
Submitted by William
Beauchamp
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Texas Mystery Town
Although it is found on a Texas map (c. 1920),
there was nothing known of Henze, Texas when it was first posted. The 1907
postal map showed that it received its mail from Brackettville.
UPDATE:
William
Beauchamp, having been in this part of Edwards County, recognized connections
to the Kickapoo Community. Although Henze appears
on the map and Kickapoo or the Thurman Ranch
do not, they are loosely tied to one another. Another reader submitted a string
of links to various genealogy sites, so Henze information is out there, after
all.
The source of the name remains a mystery as does the omission of
Kickapoo or Thurman Ranch on either map.
See Kickapoo Community for information relevant
to Henze. - Ed.
Photographer's
Note:
"The
town or community of Henze
and the Early Kickapoo Settlement are very much
intertwined. The historical markers on FM
Road 674 make no mention of the site Henze."
- William
Beauchamp |
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Edwards
County 1920s Map showing Henze
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
Edwards
& Kinney County 1907 Postal Map
showing
mail route from Brackettville
to Henze
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office | |
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