Texas Historical Marker

Reichenau Gap

London · Kimble County · placed 1966 · Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

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Kimble County, Texas

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For more than 100 years, travelers followed road from Mason to Junction through this pass. Named for Adolph A. Reichenau, a German emigrant who settled near pass in 1860 as an early landholder in nearby Big Saline Valley.

He moved in 1866 because of Indian depredations. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1966

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