Uhland LbNA #69145
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Add Location| Owner: | Baby Bear  |
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| Plant date: | Sep 8, 2015 |
| Location: | Live Oak Cemetery |
| City: | Uhland |
| County: | Caldwell |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | JUST 2 NUTS |
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| Last found: | Apr 16, 2023 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 16, 2015 |
Difficulty: Easy
Distance to Letterbox: 50 yards
This box is named for the town of Uhland, a small little berg between San Marcos and Bastrop, and placed in the old Live Oak Cemetery. The town's history is as follows from the Texas Online History:
A wide green valley criss-crossed by Plum Creek forms the landscape for Uhland, which began its recorded history with German farmers who settled there in the late 1800s. Situated on the Hays-Caldwell County line, the community is divided by historic El Camino Real, the official trail between Mexico and Louisiana.
Originally called Live Oak at its founding in 1860, the community was renamed Uhland in 1900 when the first post office was established. Historians credit Louis Scheh, a German native who moved to the area in 1880 with naming the community for a German poet he admired, Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862). Scheh's son-in-law, Herman Seeliger, was the community's first postmaster.
Live Oak Cemetery, in the community's southeastern area and next to the present day St. Michael's Catholic Church, was created in the late 1800's. Willie Damerau, whose headstone records the date of his death as 1895, is believed to be the first or one of the first graves.
Church services first were held by the German settlers in one another's homes before the founding of the present St John United Church of Christ. The church was first organized in 1889, and the first pastor was the Rev C.F. Hofheinz. It is reported that Mrs. Valentine (Anna Wisian) Arnold spent many hours preparing for the organization of the congregation, riding in her buggy or walking from house to house to get people interested in joining her and her family in worship.
Directions:
From Hwy 21, go south on FM 2720. Turn left at stop sign on FM 304 and go to the Church on left. At far end, turn in near the tower and park on side of cemetery.
To the Letterbox:
Enter through side gate, then go left along the fence until reach headstone for "Eulalia Diaz". Go past that to multi-trunk tree. Box in middle under rock pile.
Hike length: 0.1 miles
Distance to Letterbox: 50 yards
This box is named for the town of Uhland, a small little berg between San Marcos and Bastrop, and placed in the old Live Oak Cemetery. The town's history is as follows from the Texas Online History:
A wide green valley criss-crossed by Plum Creek forms the landscape for Uhland, which began its recorded history with German farmers who settled there in the late 1800s. Situated on the Hays-Caldwell County line, the community is divided by historic El Camino Real, the official trail between Mexico and Louisiana.
Originally called Live Oak at its founding in 1860, the community was renamed Uhland in 1900 when the first post office was established. Historians credit Louis Scheh, a German native who moved to the area in 1880 with naming the community for a German poet he admired, Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862). Scheh's son-in-law, Herman Seeliger, was the community's first postmaster.
Live Oak Cemetery, in the community's southeastern area and next to the present day St. Michael's Catholic Church, was created in the late 1800's. Willie Damerau, whose headstone records the date of his death as 1895, is believed to be the first or one of the first graves.
Church services first were held by the German settlers in one another's homes before the founding of the present St John United Church of Christ. The church was first organized in 1889, and the first pastor was the Rev C.F. Hofheinz. It is reported that Mrs. Valentine (Anna Wisian) Arnold spent many hours preparing for the organization of the congregation, riding in her buggy or walking from house to house to get people interested in joining her and her family in worship.
Directions:
From Hwy 21, go south on FM 2720. Turn left at stop sign on FM 304 and go to the Church on left. At far end, turn in near the tower and park on side of cemetery.
To the Letterbox:
Enter through side gate, then go left along the fence until reach headstone for "Eulalia Diaz". Go past that to multi-trunk tree. Box in middle under rock pile.
Hike length: 0.1 miles