Texas Historical Marker

Site of Town of New Ulm

New Ulm · Austin County · placed 1936

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Austin County, Texas

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Site of the town of New Ulm. First known as Duff's Settlement in honor of James C. Duff to whom the land was granted in 1841.

Settled by Germans after 1845 and renamed in honor of the German city of Ulm. (1936)

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