Category Archives: Texas Dance Halls
Fischer, Texas was established in the 1850’s as a supply center on a section of road, known as the Devil’s Backbone, between Blanco and San Marcos. Hermann Fischer in 1853, built a log trading post, know as, Fischer’s Store, to serve the local communities and folks traveling through the area. The Potters Creek School, the first in […]
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I was tempted to start this blog entry with……If you’re gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band…..but dang that would be corny – so I will not. On Saturday, December 6th the first, of hopefully many, Festival of Texas Fiddling took place at the Twin Sisters Dance Hall in Blanco, […]
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What better represents Texas than combining a Rodeo and Dancing? Since 1925 that is exactly what the Crider family has done – providing entertainment for several generation. Dang – horses, bulls, cowboys, pretty “Texas Girls”, music, and dancing – have we died and gone to heaven? The Crider family came to America in the early […]
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In 1858 George Marnoch, a Scottish immigrant, purchased the land that would later become the site of Helotes, Texas. His home served as both a stop for the stagecoach and a post office for local cowboys driving cattle from Bandera to auction in San Antonio. In 1880, Arnold Gugger bought a portion of the land […]
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Sisterdale, Texas is located in Kendall County, in the valley of Sister Creek. It is 13 miles North of Boerne, Texas. Sisterdale, Texas was settled in 1847 by Nicclaus Zink, a German surveyor and one of the many freethinkers that settled in the area. During the middle 1800 many freethinkers immigrated from Germany to the […]
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