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Grapetown is an unincorporated farming and ranching community south of Fredericksburg, situated on South Grape Creek in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located on the old Pinta Trail. Grapetown is noted for being the site of the first annual Gillespie County Bundes Schützenfest. The school was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1984, Marker number 10048.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/viewform.asp?atlas_num=5171010048&site_name=Grapetown+School&class=5000 )〕 ==Settlers and community== On December 15, 1847, a petition was submitted to create Gillespie County. In 1848, the legislature formed Gillespie County from Bexar and Travis counties.While the signers were overwhelmingly German immigrants, names also on the petition were Castillo, Pena, Munos, and a handful of non-German Anglo names. On October 20, 1846, Berlin emigrants Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm Doebbler and his wife Auguste Matheus〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fbgtxgensoc.org/photos/gra/pages/Doebbler,Auguste&Ferdinand_jpg.html )〕 disembarked from the ''Elise and Charlotte'' in Galveston, Texas, destined for Fredericksburg.〔The Ship Elise and Charlotte, October 20, 1846, Galveston Historical Foundation Immigration Database〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.txgenweb2.org/txgillespie/s-elis.html )〕〔Pioneers in God's Hills (1960) p.254〕 By 1857 they had opened Grapetown's first business entity, Doebbler's Inn and General Store at the crossing of Immigrant Road and Upper South Grape Creek. Doebbler's establishment became a stage stop and community gathering place, eventually including horse stables. The business dissolved in 1915. On May 13, 1848, John Hemphill was deeded on Survey block 187 from John E. Elgin, Abstract 208.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://wwwdb.glo.state.tx.us/central/LandGrants/landgrants.cfm?intID=117534 )〕 On June 19, 1848, Hemphill was deeded on Survey block 185 from J.B. Banks, Abstract 50.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://wwwdb.glo.state.tx.us/central/LandGrants/landgrants.cfm?intID=117376 )〕 On November 14, 1848, Hempill was deeded on Survey block 183 from Benjamin F. Lyons, Abstract 391.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://wwwdb.glo.state.tx.us/central/LandGrants/landgrants.cfm?intID=117717 )〕 Hemphill became the first rancher of record in Grapetown. Grapetown ranchers benefited from proximity to Kerrville, where they found a thriving market in selling their cattle to Charles Schreiner. Schreiner, a native of Riquewihr, France, had emigrated to the United States as a teenager with his family in 1852. In the late 1850s, Schreiner and his brother-in-law Caspar Real contracted to supply beef to the United States Army. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grapetown, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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