John Meusebach LbNA #75263
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Add Location| Owner: | Baby Bear  |
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| Plant date: | Dec 30, 2020 |
| Location: | Marschall Meusebach Cemetery, Cherry Springs, tx |
| City: | Cherry Springs |
| County: | Gillespie |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Jan 5, 2021 |
Difficulty: Easy
Distance to Letterbox: 100 yards
Prussian Bureaucrat; German-Texas Leader, Settler, and Administrator; Founder of Fredericksburg, Texas; Peacemaker with the Comanches; Texas Senator: Born Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach in 1812 in Dillenburg, Germany, son of Baron Carl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach and Ernestine von Witzleben Meusebach.
In 1845 Meusebach was appointed commissioner general for the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas, the Adelsverein. Despite many obstacles, Meusebach worked diligently in the interest of the new settlers and founded the settlements of Fredericksburg, Castell, and Leiningen, Texas.
In May 1847, Meusebach negotiated and signed the historic Meusebach-Comanche Treaty with various bands of the Comanche tribe that protected the German settlers from tribal raids. In 1847, he retired from the office of commissioner general.
In 1851, Meusebach was elected to the Texas Senate representing three counties. While in the senate he advocated universal and compulsory education.
In 1852, Meusebach married seventeen-year-old Countess Agnes of Coreth. They had eleven children, seven of whom reached adulthood. Meusebach retired to his farm in Loyal Valley, Texas in 1869 where he died in 1897. He was buried in the Marschall-Muesebach Cemetery in Cherry Springs.
Directions:
From Fredericksburg, go north on Hwy 87 to almost Cherry Springs. Turn right on Cherry Springs Rd and go about 1 mile. Turn left between black fencing to black gate to cemetery. You can either open gate and drive to cemetery, or park to side and walk through small gate to cemetery.
To the Letterbox:
Once through gate, walk to stone wall around cemetery, and go to back side entry gate. Do not enter, but go left along wall to corner, turn corner and count 6 top stones of the wall. Box is on top of wall, between stone 6 and 7, under smaller rocks.
Hike length: 0.1 miles
Distance to Letterbox: 100 yards
Prussian Bureaucrat; German-Texas Leader, Settler, and Administrator; Founder of Fredericksburg, Texas; Peacemaker with the Comanches; Texas Senator: Born Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach in 1812 in Dillenburg, Germany, son of Baron Carl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach and Ernestine von Witzleben Meusebach.
In 1845 Meusebach was appointed commissioner general for the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas, the Adelsverein. Despite many obstacles, Meusebach worked diligently in the interest of the new settlers and founded the settlements of Fredericksburg, Castell, and Leiningen, Texas.
In May 1847, Meusebach negotiated and signed the historic Meusebach-Comanche Treaty with various bands of the Comanche tribe that protected the German settlers from tribal raids. In 1847, he retired from the office of commissioner general.
In 1851, Meusebach was elected to the Texas Senate representing three counties. While in the senate he advocated universal and compulsory education.
In 1852, Meusebach married seventeen-year-old Countess Agnes of Coreth. They had eleven children, seven of whom reached adulthood. Meusebach retired to his farm in Loyal Valley, Texas in 1869 where he died in 1897. He was buried in the Marschall-Muesebach Cemetery in Cherry Springs.
Directions:
From Fredericksburg, go north on Hwy 87 to almost Cherry Springs. Turn right on Cherry Springs Rd and go about 1 mile. Turn left between black fencing to black gate to cemetery. You can either open gate and drive to cemetery, or park to side and walk through small gate to cemetery.
To the Letterbox:
Once through gate, walk to stone wall around cemetery, and go to back side entry gate. Do not enter, but go left along wall to corner, turn corner and count 6 top stones of the wall. Box is on top of wall, between stone 6 and 7, under smaller rocks.
Hike length: 0.1 miles