German Singers LbNA #74447
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Add Location| Owner: | Baby Bear
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| Plant date: | Mar 21, 2020 |
| Location: | Shelby Cemetery |
| City: | Shelby |
| County: | Austin |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | JUST 2 NUTS |
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| Last found: | Mar 29, 2023 |
| Status: | F |
| Last edited: | Mar 22, 2020 |
Difficulty: Easy
Distance to letterbox: 50 yards
The history of Shelby talks about its German Singing groups, thus reason for this box. Great old cemetery. Here is the history:
SHELBY, TEXAS. Shelby is at the junction of Farm roads 389 and 1457, twenty-four miles northwest of Bellville in extreme northwestern Austin County. It was settled in the early 1840s and was named for David Shelby, reportedly the first settler in the area. Most of the early residents were members of the German Adelsverein, and the actual founder of the town was Otto von Röder, who constructed a grain mill at the site around 1841. In the mid-1840s a small community began to develop and was known as Rödersmühl, or Röders Mill. In 1845 August Vogelsang bought the mill from Röder, and that year a number of German families, including the Vanderwerths, the Rothermels, and the Ohlendorfs, moved into the area. A post office opened in 1846 under the name Shelby. Most of the German settlers were from well-educated middle-class families and were interested in the promotion of the arts and sciences. Among these Germans the knowledge of Latin indicated a high level of education, and for a time the community was called a Latin settlement (see LATIN SETTLEMENTS OF TEXAS). A singing society was founded there in 1852, and the first school was built in 1854. In 1867 the town was the site of large singing festival (in honor of the Prussian soldiers who had died in the Seven Weeks War) that attracted German singing groups from around the state.
Directions:
From Roundtop, go east on FM 1457 until you reach Shelby. Go through town and look for cemetery on the right, turn on street, then quick left at chain gate.
To the Letterbox:
Walk from chain straight back and find stakes for #14 and #15, by "Schroeter" headstone. Find the tree at the corner of chain link fence. Box is on left back base under rocks.
Hike length: 0.1 miles
Distance to letterbox: 50 yards
The history of Shelby talks about its German Singing groups, thus reason for this box. Great old cemetery. Here is the history:
SHELBY, TEXAS. Shelby is at the junction of Farm roads 389 and 1457, twenty-four miles northwest of Bellville in extreme northwestern Austin County. It was settled in the early 1840s and was named for David Shelby, reportedly the first settler in the area. Most of the early residents were members of the German Adelsverein, and the actual founder of the town was Otto von Röder, who constructed a grain mill at the site around 1841. In the mid-1840s a small community began to develop and was known as Rödersmühl, or Röders Mill. In 1845 August Vogelsang bought the mill from Röder, and that year a number of German families, including the Vanderwerths, the Rothermels, and the Ohlendorfs, moved into the area. A post office opened in 1846 under the name Shelby. Most of the German settlers were from well-educated middle-class families and were interested in the promotion of the arts and sciences. Among these Germans the knowledge of Latin indicated a high level of education, and for a time the community was called a Latin settlement (see LATIN SETTLEMENTS OF TEXAS). A singing society was founded there in 1852, and the first school was built in 1854. In 1867 the town was the site of large singing festival (in honor of the Prussian soldiers who had died in the Seven Weeks War) that attracted German singing groups from around the state.
Directions:
From Roundtop, go east on FM 1457 until you reach Shelby. Go through town and look for cemetery on the right, turn on street, then quick left at chain gate.
To the Letterbox:
Walk from chain straight back and find stakes for #14 and #15, by "Schroeter" headstone. Find the tree at the corner of chain link fence. Box is on left back base under rocks.
Hike length: 0.1 miles