Walking through history

PHOTO CAPTION: Julius Habermann home built about 1862, located at 543 W. Mill St. The photo was taken before renovations in 1947. By Tara V. Kohlenberg — Have you ever taken a walking tour of New Braunfels? Whether with a group or self-guided with detailed maps, the tours are basically a clever way to learn […]

Early German immigrants faced tough times at Christmas

By Myra Lee Adams Goff — The year is 1849, just five years after the first emigrants arrived on the Texas coast. Hermann Seele has been invited to spend December 26th with Pastor L.C. Ervendberg, his wife Luise, their five children, and the 19 orphans left parentless by the devastating immigration conditions beginning in 1846. The […]

A flight to remember

Replica of the Wright Vin Fiz, 1911. Keva Hoffmann Boardman — On Saturday, October 21, 1911, James Ogletree and a buddy finished gathering pecans along the Guadalupe River near the Gruene Road bridge and walked up to his grandfather H.D. Gruene’s store. There, they heard the MKT depot manager exclaim that he had just received […]