Sources:

Haas, Oscar. History of New Braunfels and Comal County, Texas, 1844-1946; Hart Graphics, Inc.; Austin, TX, 1968, pp. 131-134, 309.
Used with permission.
To order, contact the
Sophienburg Archives, or visit your local bookstore.

Anderson-Lindemann, Brenda. Spring Branch & Western Comal County, Texas; Omni Publishers, Inc., 1998.


Post Offices/Postmasters for Hill Country Area

(not including New Braunfels)

Post Office

Notes

Postmaster

Date Appointed

Ammanns

Existed for only nine months

In home of Charles Ammann

Charles Ammann

1 Feb 1881

Anhalt

In Krause Store

Discontinued: 31 Mar 1907

Louis Krause

24 Nov 1879

Bergheim

Changed to Bergheim Postal Substation in 1967

Andreas Engel

Alfred Engel

Rudolph Engel

Alfred Engel

Bernadine Engel-Cobb

Bernadine Engel-Cobb

Helen Engel-Marquart

Stanley Jones

17 May 1901

1916

1917

20 Jun 1919

31 May 1965

1967

1974

1980

Boerne

In Staffel Store

Now in Kendall County

August Staffel

John G. O'Grady

Ferdinand Lohmann

Bertha Staffel

August Schweppe

Henry Theis

Patterson D. Saner

Hugo B. Wendler

Jared W. Carlson

18 Jan 1856

30 Jan 1866

4 Aug 1869

15 Dec 1870

1 Feb 1881

28 Oct 1889

1894

1 Aug 1898

26 Jun 1900

Bracken

Post office discontinued 1932

Now served by rural mail routes

Charles Schmitz

W.W. Meeks

Oscar Kramer

William Fincke

Adolph Bremer

Hugo Bremer

Wesley R. Rosenberg

Bertha Rosenberg

Gilmer Rosenberg

26 Dec 1883

25 Sep 1886

10 Dec 1886

15 Dec 1887

13 Jul 1889

13 Feb 1908

31 Jan 1911

7 Jun 1930

18 Mar 1931

Bulverde

Original post office discontinued 30 Apr 1919

Bulverde Community Rural Post Office opened Jun 1959

Charles Groenke

Jane Wood

Kay Byrd

Danette Tucker

Cathy Kelfer

Melissa Wood

9 Dec 1879

Jun 1959

1978

1979?

 

1983

Comal Ranch After Civil War, became part of Spring Branch post office Wm. DeForest Holly

Charles Power

19 Oct 1861

24 Apr 1862

  Crain's Mill

Discontinued: 5 Nov 1866

Reopened as "Crane's Mill": 17 Jan 1873

Crane's Mill located in Engel Store;

Site now at bottom of Canyon Lake

  James B. Crain

John J. Lackey

James B. Crain

John B. Lackey

August Engel, Sr.

August Engel, Jr.

  19 Oct 1857

31 Mar 1859

12 Jul 1859

23 Mar 1860

17 Jan 1873

1 Apr 1905

Curry's Creek

Was Hodges Mill prior to Civil War

Abbreviated to "Curry" in 1894/1895

Discontinued to Kendalia, TX

John W. Sansom

Richard W. Nowlin

William Jones

Richard W. Nowlin

Benjamin F. Patton

Thomas Short

George W. Saunders

William K. Jones

___ Jones

William R. Piper

John J. Davis

George W. Saunders

Charles M. Carter

15 May 1866

25 Oct 1867

9 Apr 1868

18 Oct 1869

5 Oct 1870

28 Feb 1871

29 Nov 1872

26 Jun 1873

30 Apr 1874

18 Dec 1876

21 Jan 1878

13 Jun 1878

29 Oct 1894

  Danville

  In Klaus Store

Discontinued: 1894

  William Klaus

 9 Jun 1875

  Fischer Store

Name changed from Fischer Store to Fischer: 1 Oct 1950

Serves Crane's Mill, Hancock, Sattler areas

    Hermann Fischer, Sr.

Hermann Fischer, Jr.

Willie Fischer

Eddie Fischer

Eddie Fischer

Gertrude O. Fischer

Krin K. Byrd

  24 Jul 1876

24 Jul 1893

24 Jul 1928

24 Jul 1946

1 Oct 1950

29 Mar 1975

9 Jan 1993

Goodwin

 In Gruene Store

Discontinued: 3 Mar 1904

Now served by rural route from New Braunfels

 Henry D. Gruene

6 Jun 1890

Guadalupe

Discontinued to Schiller, TX on 14 Aug 1890

Charles Winzel

Henry Koch

Casper H. Sueltenfuss

5 Mar 1875

15 Mar 1880

2 Feb 1883

  Hancock

  In Frank Guenther Store

Discontinued; Now at bottom of Canyon Lake;

Area now served from Fischer

  Theodore Heise

Frank Guenther

15 Oct 1914

25 Apr 1916

  Hodges Mill

  Discontiued after Civil War, became Curry's Creek, TX

  John S. Hodges

John S. Hodges

Neill Robinson

William C. Jones

William Jones

Allen Ryann

7 Nov 1856

17 Feb 1857

17 Feb 1858

4 May 1859

13 Aug 1861

8 Sep 1862

  Hunter

  Closed: 30 Sep 1953

Now served by rural carrier from New Braunfels

  Gustavus A. Schleyer

Nicolaus Manger

Randolph Richter

August Wallhoefer

Bennett H. Thornton

Aug. J. Wallhoefer

Adolph Simon

Ernst B. Striegnitz

Ernest Laechlin

Oscar K. Kramer

Helmuth C. Ludwig

Mrs. Bruno Wallhoefer

25 Jun 1883

12 Dec 1888

15 Jun 1891

26 Dec 1891

10 Jun 1897

3 Feb 1905

16 Feb 1912

26 Oct 1912

14 Nov 1913

19 May 1917

22 Apr 1920

1937-1953

Kendalia

 

 

Charles G. Vogel

James J. Mershon

Jesse W. Lawhon

Mary Ann Moss

Lucrelia Jones

Jesse W. Lawhon

Jesse W. Lawhon

Jesse W. Lawhon

Simon Schneider

Harris B. McCrooklin

Edgar Heidrich

Freddy J. Fischer

Elva Ellen Wolfe

Elva Ellen Wolfe

Lanette E. Edmondson

13 Nov 1882

17 Jul 1884

17 Aug 1887

25 Oct 1887

13 Mar 1890

15 Jan 1891

13 Mar 1896

18 Dec 1900

11 Dec 1907

27 Apr 1917

11 Nov 1918

29 Mar 1949

29 Sep 1949

14 Jul 1952

18 Apr 1981

  New Pittsburg

  Now Blanco

  James C. Stephenson

Thomas Durham

John P. Tennison

Marion F. Bell

Andrew Yager

Marion F. Bell

  26 Sep 1857

28 Sep 1858

29 Apr 1859

26 Jan 1861

1 Aug 1866

8 Oct 1866

Panther Creek

Existed for only three months

Fred K. Hofheinz

Louis Willke

3 Jun 1879

24 Jul 1879

  Sattler

  In Sattler home

Discontinued: 1950

Community now served by star route out of Fischer

  Henry Sattler

Henry W. Sattler

William Sattler

Peter D. Smith

Charles Baetge

William Sattler

Henry Weil

John Marschall

Peter Nowotny, Jr.

Bruno L. Pape

William R. Posey

Hugo Liesmann

Emil Guenther

16 Sep 1856

6 Mar 1862

18 Jun 1867

5 Apr 1870

24 Mar 1873

3 May 1880

13 Jul 1880

8 Dec 1885

14 May 1900

4 Aug 1906

30 Jan 1908

15 Apr 1909

10 Dec 1910

Schiller

Existed 1890-1901

Office moved several times due to flooding

Discontinued to Bergheim, TX

Casper H. Sueltenfuss

14 Aug 1890

  Sisterdale

 

  Ottmar W. Behr

Edward Degener

Adolph Neubar

Frederic Ebell

August Langbein

August Langbein

August Langbein

  23 Oct 1851

9 Feb 1856

27 Apr 1866

24 Jun 1874

1891

15 Mar 1896

19 Dec 1900

  Smithson Valley

    Discontinued: 13 Sep 1929

Now served by star route from New Braunfels

Benjamin F. Smithson

Henry Busch

Henry Busch

Charles Ohlrich

August G. Startz

Edwin H. Bose

Julius Bremer

Dorothy Paulus

 17 Sep 1857

17 Dec 1860

13 Sep 1861

10 Apr 1866

12 Nov 1897

2 Oct 1911

30 Jun 1914

1945

  Solms

  Reininger & Hoffmann

Later Reinarz & Schwab

Discontinued to New Braunfels: 31 Oct 1903

  Frederick E. Hoffmann

Otto Reinarz

27 Aug 1894

12 Nov 1897

  Spring Branch

 

  Ludwig "Louis" Willke

Charles A. Porter, M.D.

Christian H. Holtz

Christian "Gottlieb" Elbel

Bernhard Monken

Heinrich "Hans" Specht

William Specht

Charles Knibbe

Hermann J. Knibbe

Rudolph F. Rose

Fred J. Rose

Mildred Louise Taylor

Fred J. Rose

Gladys T. Rose, acting

Gladys T. Rose

Shirley S. Eismann

Estella Reeves

1 Jul 1858

  25 Sep 1860

10 Jul 1866

29 May 1867

1872

15 Feb 1875

14 Sep 1906

8 Nov 1907

29 Sep 1914

1 Jan 1950

24 Aug 1951

30 Sep 1955

18 Oct 1957

19 Aug 1960

18 Feb 1965

24 Jul 1982

Jan 1992

  Twin Sisters

 

  Otto Wuppermann

Enoch B. George

Nathaniel K. Raynes

Augustus Engel

 24 Dec 1856

25 Jan 1859

28 Oct 1861

10 Jul 1867

  View

  In Rohde Store and Hall

Discontinued: 31 Mar 1904

Rural routes established

  Edward Rohde

8 Sep 1899

  Wesson

  In Beierle's home

Discontinued; Served by star route from New Braunfels

  Charles Beierle

  2 Aug 1893


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