Historical Markers in New Braunfels, Texas

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• First Patented Wire Fenceplaced 1982

  [Special fence design at top of inscription] Virgina native William H. Meriwether (b. 1800), an early Comal County plantation owner, ran a sawmill…

• Carl Heinrich Guentherplaced 2010

  (SEPTEMBER 9, 1821 - APRIL 8, 1870) BORN IN PRUSSIA, CARL (KARL) HEINRICH GUENTHER IMMIGRATED TO TEXAS IN 1845.

• Comal County, C.S.A.placed 1964

  Manufacturing and supply center in Civil War. The local newpaper urged southern cause so strongly that 1861 vote was 239 to 86 favoring secession.

• Ferdinand J. Lindheimerplaced 1936

  Soldier in the Texas Army, 1836. A botanist of note. Born in Germany, May 2, 1801. Died December 2, 1879.

• Home of Ferdinand Lindheimerplaced 1936

  (1801-1879) Soldier in Texas Revolution. Father of Texas botany. Editor of the Neu Braunfels Zeitung. (1852-1872) (Comal Ave., New Braunfels)

• Home of Ferdinand Lindheimerplaced 1962

  (1801 - 1879) Soldier in the Texas Revolution; father of Texas botany. Editor of the New Braunfelser Zeitung, 1852-1872.

New Braunfels on the Texas history calendar

• November 8: First Patented Wire Fence

All 89 historical markers in New Braunfels

• 1915 New Braunfels Post Office2015
• Albert and Marie Kopplin House2020
• Arnold-Rauch-Brandt Homestead2016
• August and Karoline Tolle House2004
• August Dietz Cottage1974
• Breustedt House1972
• Breustedt Kitchen1973
• Carl Heinrich Guenther2010
• Church Hill School Building1976
• Comal County1936
• Comal County Courthouse1993
• Comal County Fair2014
• Comal County, C.S.A.1964
• Dr. Theodore Koester Home1970
• Edgar Alfred Grist, DVM2022
• Eiband and Fischer General Mercantile2012
• Emmie Seele Faust Memorial Library2017
• Ernst and Antoinette Gruene House2018
• Faust Hotel1984
• Faust Street Bridge1999
• Ferdinand J. Lindheimer1936
• First Patented Wire Fence1982
• First Protestant Church1967
• First United Methodist Church2015
• Haag Cemetery2017
• Hermann Seele1976
• Hinmann House2008
• Home of Ferdinand Lindheimer1936
• Home of Ferdinand Lindheimer1962
• Homesite of Johann and Gertruda Walzem2002
• International & Great Northern Railroad in New Braunfels2006
• Johann Michael Jahn
• John F. Torrey, Site of Early Mill and Factory1936
• Joseph Klein House1979
• Junction of Two Important Rivers, the Guadalupe and the Comal1968
• King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road1918
• Landa Park2009
• Louis Henne Co.1973
• Main Plaza Bandstand2003
• Meriwether Milling2012
• Mill Street Telegraph Station2016
• Mission Hill2023
• Mission Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe1936
• Mission Valley School2009
• Natural Bridge Caverns1967
• Near River Crossing Used by New Braunfels' First Settlers1969
• New Braunfels1936
• New Braunfels1964
• New Braunfels Academy1986
• New Braunfels Cemetery1976
• New Braunfels Gemischter Chor Harmonie2020
• New Braunfels Schuetzen Verein2006
• New Braunfels Woolen Mill2015
• New Braunfels: County Seat of Comal County2005
• Old Carl W. Groos Home1968
• Old Krause Building1968
• Old New Braunfels High School1986
• Old Schmidt Home1968
• Old Scholl House1967
• Original Site of Mountain Valley School2001
• Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cemetery2019
• Panteón Hidalgo (Hidalgo Cemetery)2021
• Phoenix Saloon2015
• Plumeyer Bakery Building2005
• Richard E. and Ella Sodke Kloepper House2003
• Riley's Tavern2013
• Site of New Braunfels Academy1965
• Site of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Mission - Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission1968
• Site of Old Schmitz Hotel1971
• Slumber Falls Camp2015
• Smithson Valley Cemetery2013
• Sophienburg Hill2017
• Stephen Klein Home1967
• Texas Germans in the Civil War1964
• The Church of Saints Peter and Paul1976
• The Eggeling Hotel1979
• The Grotto, Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church1980
• The Hofheinz House2002
• The Moeller House1970
• The New Braunfels Herald2016
• The Voigt House1973
• The Wilhelm Weidner Homestead1974
• Ullrich Home1965
• Waisenhaus (Orphanage)1970
• Walzem Chapel2014
• West End Park and Dance Hall2016
• Windwehen Home2014
• Wurstfest2017
• York Creek Cemetery2021

Historical markers near New Braunfels

• Gruene7 stories · 3 mi
• Seguin51 stories · 15 mi
• San Marcos77 stories · 16 mi
• Spring Branch14 stories · 20 mi
• Wimberley15 stories · 20 mi
• Kyle19 stories · 24 mi

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