Startz Café receives Texas Treasure Business Award
By Myra Lee Adams Goff The Startz Café has the distinction of being one of the only small businesses in Comal County still in operation by the same family for over 50 years. They just received the Texas Treasure Business Award in 2014. They were nominated by Representative Doug Miller. This story is about how […]
Dr. Wilhelm Remer, early medical doctor with the Adelsverein
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Have you heard of Dr. Wilhelm Remer? He was an early medical doctor with the Adelsverein for the protection of German immigrants in Texas and he was a friend of Hermann Seele. Here is the story of how they met and their lifetime friendship. First a little reminder of Seele’s […]
Devil’s Backbone leads you to Fischer’s Store
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Ranch Road 32 West is worth a drive into a scenic part of Comal County. From New Braunfels, drive out FM 306, right on Purgatory Road, then left at RR 32 over a section called Devil’s Backbone. Probably named for the spine of the devil, it winds and winds and […]
Felipe Delgado’s West End Park
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Felipe Delgado had a dream. It was during WWII when he was in the U.S. Army Air Corps stationed in India. He dreamed of home in New Braunfels and of creating a place of entertainment for the Hispanic people. He and his wife Elisa fulfilled that dream by building the […]
Sophienburg to host “Meet the Local Authors” event
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Sophie’s Shop at the Sophienburg is loaded with books about New Braunfels and native New Braunfelsers. There are novels, children’s books, as well as history books. The first “Meet the Local Authors” will be Saturday, April 17th from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. All the authors will be there to visit […]
Waisenhaus believed to be first orphanage
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Can you think of three words that would describe what was important to your mother’s generation? How about your grandmother’s? Go back one more generation and it’s easy because that generation of immigrant women spelled it out: “Küche, Kirche, und Kinder, or “kitchen, church and children”. Written accounts bear this […]
Scrapbooks and diaries reveal much about history
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Now keep on writing what you know About the things you do, And share with us your memories So we can learn from you. Have you ever thought about the importance of writing in a diary and keeping a scrapbook and what this process has done for history? One hundred […]
John Torrey important businessman in early NB
By Myra Lee Adams Goff “Connecticut Yankees in Prince Carl’s Court” might describe the Torrey brothers, John F., Tudor, Abraham, George, David, and Thomas. They were indeed from Connecticut and three of them did end up in Prince Carl’s domain. One of them, John, stayed. If you look at the 1850 map, you will see […]
Customs of St. Valentine’s day changed over the years
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Next week is Valentine’s Day and the Sophienburg has a display of about 30 of their historic valentines from the early 1900s to the 1950s. The most elaborate and beautiful card is a zephyr (hot air balloon) decorated with a technique called “honeycomb”. Parts of the card fold down and […]
Rahm tells of beautiful spot between two rivers
By Myra Lee Adams Goff The name Johann Jacob Rahm is not a very familiar one in New Braunfels – nothing is named after him, no street or school like after Solms, Seele, or Lindheimer. But Rahm is perhaps the one person who actually was the most influential in the selection of this site to […]
