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Luckenbach

  Texas Historical Markers
near Post Office, Luckenbach, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 30° 10' 28.88960999988", -98° 45' 4.17350000016"
 
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    Members of the Luckenbach family and other German immigrants moved here from Fredericksburg (11 mi. NW) in the 1850s. They settled along Grape Creek and soon established a school for their children. the Grape Creek Post Office was in operation briefly after 1858 with William Luckenbach as first postmaster. Later settlers included August Engel, who served as first postmaster when the post office was reestablished here in 1886 under the name of Luckenbach. John Russell Hondo Crouch and others bought the town center in 1970 and promoted its rustic atmosphere. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

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