[Historic Marker Application: Homesite of Johann and Gertruda Walzem] Page: 1 of 24
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Texas Historical Commission staff (LCH), 8/1/02, revised 12/9/02
Official Texas Historical Medallion and 16"x12" plaque without post for attachment to stone
Comal County (Job #02802)
Location: 690 Mission Valley Road (about 4 mi. N of New Braunfels via SH 46)
Subject codes: GN, BH, VN UTM ref.: 14 577484E 3288680N
Homesite of
JOHANN AND GERTRUDA WALZEM
JOHANN JOSEPH AND ANNA GERTRUDA WALZEM
CAME TO TEXAS FROM PRUSSIA c. 1851. IN 1859, THE
STATE OF TEXAS OFFICIALLY GRANTED THEM THE
LAND THEY HAD SETTLED (160 ACRES), INCLUDING
THIS HOMESITE. JOHANN WAS A STONEMASON. HE
AND HIS SONS BUILT THE HOME AND BARN, AS WELL
AS NEARBY ST. JOHN CHAPEL. THEY ALSO DUG
FOUR CISTERNS ON THE PROPERTY. STARTING IN
1871, THE LAND PASSED TO THE WALZEM'S CHIL-
DREN: JOHANN, GERTRUDE, ANDREAS, HEINRICH
AND PETER. THE HOME, BUILT IN STAGES OF STONE
FROM THE SITE, SERVED AS A SCHOOL FOR THE
LOCAL CHILDREN IN THE 1860s. THE BARN ALSO MAY
HAVE BEEN USED AS A HOME.
RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK - 2002
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