Re: Engel's of Luckenbach, TX
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Re: Engel's of Luckenbach, TX
Lynn McCandless 3/17/05
From the Handbook of Texas online:
LUCKENBACH, TEXAS. Luckenbach, a scenic community on both sides of Ranch Road 1376, 13½ miles from Fredericksburg in southeastern Gillespie County, was settled as a farming community in the late 1840s and early 1850s by several German-speaking families, among them those of brothers Jacob Luckenbach,qv a veteran of the Texas Revolution,qv and August Luckenbach. The pleasant setting is a mixture of caliche hills and bottomlands on Grape Creek, a tributary of the Pedernales River. A store, saloon, and post office were established there by Mrs. Albert Luckenbach, née Minnie Engel.