ST1100 ST1300
The 16th annual Texas gathering of ST1100/ST1300 owners and their friends.
ST1100 ST1300
Fredericksburg, TX
Oct 7-9, 2011
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Fredericksburg, the county seat of Gillespie County, is seventy miles west of Austin in the central part of the county. The town was one of a projected series of German settlements from the Texas coast to the land north of the Llano River, originally the ultimate destination of the German immigrants sent to Texas by the Adelsverein, a society dedicated to building a "new" Germany on Texas soil. In August 1845 John O. Meusebach left New Braunfels with a surveying party to select a site for a second settlement en route to the Fisher-Miller Land Grant. He eventually chose a tract of land sixty miles northwest of New Braunfels, where two streams met four miles above the Pedernales River; the streams were later named Barons Creek and Town Creek. The settlers were impressed by the abundance of water, stone, and timber and the first wagontrain of 120 settlers arrived from New Braunfels on May 8, 1846, after a sixteen-day journey, accompanied by an eight-man military escort provided by the Adelsverein.
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| If you are interested in helping out with this year's "stuff", send me a message at ST-Owners.com, KeithQ. |