Lower South Grape Creek School (Gillespie County, Texas)

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Lower South Grape Creek School
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Lower South Grape Creek School
Nearest city Fredericksburg, Texas
Coordinates 30°13′29″N98°43′41″W / 30.22472°N 98.72806°W / 30.22472; -98.72806 Coordinates: 30°13′29″N98°43′41″W / 30.22472°N 98.72806°W / 30.22472; -98.72806
Area1.1 acres (0.45 ha)
Built1901 (1901)
NRHP reference # 05000391 [1]
RTHL # 10073
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 6, 2005
Designated RTHL1994

Lower South Grape Creek School is located at 10273 E U.S. Highway 290 in Gillespie County, Texas. In 1960, the school was consolidated with Fredericksburg Independent School District. The building is now used as a community center. The school was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1994, Marker number 10073. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in Texas on May 6, 2005.

Gillespie County, Texas County in the United States

Gillespie County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 24,837. The county seat is Fredericksburg. It is located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Gillespie is named for Robert Addison Gillespie, a soldier in the Mexican–American War.

Fredericksburg Independent School District is a public school district based in Fredericksburg, Texas (USA).

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark (RTHL) is a designation awarded by the Texas Historical Commission for historically and architecturally significant properties in the state of Texas. RTHL is a legal designation and the highest honor the state can bestow on a historic structure. Purchase and display of a historical marker is a required component of the RTHL designation process. Because it is a legal designation, owners of RTHL-designated structures must give 60 days notice before any alterations are made to the exterior of the structure. Changes that are unsympathetic may result in removal of the designation and historical marker. There are over 3600 RTHL structures throughout the state.

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Community background

Luckenbach was settled on the Pedernales tributary of Grape Creek by German colonists such as the Luckenbach family, who arrived in Texas from Stein-Wingert, Germany, aboard the Brig Johann Dethardt January 12, 1846. [2] [3] They were among the first wave of colonists to Fredericksburg in 1846. In 1852, the Luckenbachs moved southeast to the area that came to bear the family name, and became naturalized citizens. [4] [5] [6] William Luckenbach was the first postmaster of South Grape Creek, which was eventually discontinued in 1869. [7] Other early colonists in the area along South Grape Creek were John M. Hunter, Wlihelm Feller and Peter Burg, who were among the petitioners to create Gillespie County, as well as Eramus Frantzen, L.F. Toepperwein, Friedrich Scharnhorst, John Blank, G.J. Weber, and Ferdinand Gellermann.

Luckenbach, Texas Place in Texas, United States

Luckenbach is an unincorporated community thirteen miles (19 km) from Fredericksburg in southeastern Gillespie County, Texas, United States, part of the Texas Hill Country. Luckenbach is known as a venue for country music.

Pedernales River river in the United States of America

The Pedernales River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 106 miles (171 km) long, in central Texas in the United States. It drains an area of the Edwards Plateau, flowing west to east across the Texas Hill Country west of Austin. The name "Pedernales", first used in the middle 18th century, comes from a Spanish word for the flint rocks characteristic of the riverbed.

Stein-Wingert Place in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Stein-Wingert is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

School

The first school house at South Grape Creek was a log construction built on 1.33 acre s (0.01  km2 ; 0.00  sq mi ) of land purchased by the Luckenbach trustees from widow Juliane Wehmeyer in 1871 for $50. The South Grape School District was part of the Luckenbach School Precinct No. 3, which covered Luckenbach, Grapetown, South Grape Creek, and Grape Hill. On May 12, 1889, the school on South Grape Creek was named Lower South Grape Creek School, District #21, because the Grapetown school was named Upper South Grape Creek School. Theodor Huelsemann was the first teacher and taught the Lower South Grape Creek school until 1880.

Acre Unit of area

The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong, which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, ​1⁄640 of a square mile, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare. Based upon the International yard and pound agreement of 1959, an acre may be declared as exactly 4,046.8564224 square metres. The acre is a statute measure in the United States and was formerly one in the United Kingdom and almost all countries of the former British Empire, although informal use continues.

Square kilometre or square kilometer, symbol km2, is a multiple of the square metre, the SI unit of area or surface area.

The square mile is an imperial and US unit of measure for an area equal to the area of a square with a side length of one statute mile. It should not be confused with miles square, which refers to a square region with each side having the specified length. For instance, 20 miles square has an area equal to 400 square miles; a rectangle of 10 × 40 miles likewise has an area of 400 square miles, but it is not 20 miles square.

In 1901, a new one-room building was erected out of native limestone, on an acre of land bought for $5 from Charles and Martha Ahrens, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north on U.S. Highway 290 (then known as the Austin Highway). The original structure had a pyramidal roof, with a chimney, tin roof and bell tower. Capital improvements in later years included a concrete slab porch large enough on which to perform school plays, electricity, and indoor plumbing. [8]

Due to sagging enrollment, the school was consolidated with the Fredericksburg Independent School District in 1960. Designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1994, Marker number 10073. [9] Lower South Grape Creek School was added to the National Register of Historic Places in Texas on May 6, 2005. [10]

National Register of Historic Places listings in Gillespie County, Texas Wikimedia list article

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gillespie County, Texas.

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References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Brig Johann Dethardt". Gillespie County Historical Society. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  3. ↑ Pioneers in God's Hills (1960), P.248
  4. ↑ "Naturalization Records". Fredericksburg Historical Society. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  5. ↑ Perry, Garland. "Jacob Luckenbach". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  6. ↑ Lich, Glen E; Schnaut, Brandy. "Luckenbach, Texas". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  7. ↑ "South Grape Creek Postmasters". Jim Wheat. Retrieved 6 February 2011.Jim Wheat
  8. ↑ "HIstory Lower South Grape Creek School". Friends of Gillespie County Country Schools. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  9. ↑ "THC Lower South Grape Creek School". Texas Historical Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  10. ↑ "NRHP-Lower South Grape Creek School". U.S. Dept. of Interior, the National Park Service. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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