View of beautiful Colorado River winding through Austin, TX from Mount Bonnell August 2008
Fresh GREEN Idea from KGSR radio in Austin
PLANT TREES WHEN YOU SEARCH!
If you use the internet, chances are you've used a search engine. The folks at Google have set up a new search engine to help reforest the Amazons and forests around the world. It is called Ecoogler (http://www.ecoogler.com/), and it works exactly the same as Google, but each time you use it, you're helping plant a tree. Brilliant!
5/7/08 Taco Bell and Kohl's are goin' up quick at the new Gateway at Leander where the new Lowe's is at the corner of 183 and Crystal Falls Parkway in Leander. There is plenty of leasable space available too- for instance Reunion Square, just south of Crystal Falls on 183. Also, Sharon Stegall's office space is for lease accross from Leander City Hall (Pat Bryson Hall) and the O'Leader Cafe.
I love New Braunfels. Besides enjoying Landa Park and Wurstfest- I have a lot of history there. These are 2 of my early German ancestors:
Johanne Heinrich Andreas Breustedt and Wilhelmine Caroline Dauer
Breustedt Kitchen http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5091000502
1858 Andreas Breustedt home http://www.planetware.com/new-braunfels/museum-of-texas-handmade-furniture-us-tx-nbf.htm
Historical Marker for Bruestedt Home
http://www.historicmarkers.com/Texas/Comal_County_Texas/Breustedt_House__TX501/
1858 Andreas Breustedt home The Texas Museum of Handmade Furniture (aka The Breustedt-Dillen House)
see: http://www.nbcham.org/visitor/museum_furniture.asp also http://www.nbheritagevillage.com/
Andreas Breustedt is my German ancestor. He came to Texas in 1845, was a Texas Ranger then settled near New Braunfels. After marrying Caroline Dauer, he "built a new house on his 200-acre farm. Twelve children were born to the Breustedts, of which three died as infants. The others all grew to adulthood and were each given a large section of his land between New Braunfels and Seguin when they married." Some of this land still remains in the family. We sold ours, a farm outside Seguin (on Cordova Road off 46) to care for my father- Carl Raetzsch.
The Breustedt's outdoor stone kitchen remained in its original location near the New Braunfels Smokehouse restaurant for many decades. I ate there once when it was a restaurant. Now it has been moved back to be with the original house which is known as the Texas Museum of Handmade Furniture in New Braunfels. Considered " one of the best remaining examples of German fachwerk construction".
Johanne Heinrich Andreas Breustedt
B: 10 Mar 1825 Braunschweig
D: 16 Aug 1921 Seguin, Texas
M: Wilhelmine Caroline Dauer 2 Nov 1852 New Braunfels, Texas
Caroline Dauer Born Dec. 4, 1831, Died August 16th, 1901. Buried in Breustedt family plot by what is now Highway 35 in New Braunfels, TX. Poor Caroline- instead of on a prairie- the cemetary is now in front of some apartments right on Highway 35. I will bring my clippers and do a little family cemetary clean up this weekend.
The Clear Springs Restaurant just south of New Braunfels on 46 is on the site of a store built in the 1870's by Andreas Breustedt. There is a historical marker there in the back, by the entry and parking lot.
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My grandparents were Dr. Carl William Raetzsch Jr., a medical doctor in Seguin and Alice Pieper (Raetzsch). Mother Alice, as she liked to be called by her Grandchildren, was the granddaughter of Johanne Heinrich Andreas Breustedt and Wilhelmine Caroline Dauer.
Betty ( Raetzsch ) Saenz REALTOR® GRI, SRES® BettySellsAustin.com
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