Hill Country Sunrise

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A Spring sunrise in the Hill Country.

Lake Belton Sunset

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Belton Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Leon River in the Brazos River basin, 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Belton, United...

Central Texas • Hill Country • Videos

Colorful Tour of the Hill Country Painted Churches

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When immigrants from Moravia found passage into Galveston, the Ellis Island of the South, many headed for the Texas Hill Country bringing a piece of...

Steinbach House in Castroville by Todd Leckie

Central Texas

Circa 1618-1648 Steinbach Haus in Castroville

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The Steinbach Haus was originally built in Wahlbach, France between 1618 and 1648 and lived in until 1988. Centuries after it was built, it was...

Central Texas • Hill Country

St. Stanislaus in Chappell Hill

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In 1888, Rev. James Grabinger, announced that a church would be built in Chappell Hill — St. Stanislaus. The great hurricane of 1900 that...

Central Texas

Lake Belton

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Belton Lake is located on the Leon River 16.7 miles upstream of the confluence of the Leon River and the Little River. It is in the northern part of...

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg by Nicolas Henderson

Central Texas • Hill Country

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Fredericksburg

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Several black families were residing in Gillespie County by the 1870s. A schoolhouse was built in 1877 on property adjacent to this later church site...