Farmers, Ranchers, the Land and the Falls - Texas Parks & Wildlife ...

A History of the Pedernales Falls Area, 1850–1970
Illustrations
Figure 1. Giant cypress tree on Cypress Creek, date unknown.
Photo from Ottilie Goeth, Memoirs of a Texas Grandmother,
reprinted with permission from Eakin Press.....................................................................3
Figure 2. Fuchs’ mill on Cypress Creek, 1880. Photo from Ottilie Goeth,
Memoirs of a Texas Grandmother, reprinted with permission from Eakin Press...........4
Figure 3. The rock house near Jones Spring on the A.C. Hughes tract,
probably built by T.J. Trammell in the early 1870s, later occupied by
D.G. and Nannie Jones. Photo 2010 by author................................................................9
Figure 4. One of the rock walls on the A.C. Hughes tract,
which probably enclosed the field where Trammell and Jones
raised their crops. Photo 2010 by author...........................................................................9
Figure 5. The Cypress Mill schoolhouse in 1875. The schoolhouse on
Greene Wilson’s land was about the same size. Photo from Ottilie Goeth,
Memoirs of a Texas Grandmother, reprinted with permission from Eakin Press........ 11
Figure 6. Tombstone of Annie Raines, in the Pedernales Falls
community’s cemetery. Photograph taken in 1944, donated to Pedernales
Falls State Park by C.A. Wheatley (the Younger), C.A.’s nephew. ............................. 12
Figure 7. The Cypress Mill store and post office, where the settlers in the
Pedernales Falls area collected their mail. Photo from Ottilie Goeth, Memoirs
of a Texas Grandmother, reprinted with permission from Eakin Press........................ 13
Figure 8. Sketch of the F. Schroeder survey, showing the 200 acres
Edward Maume set aside for his homestead. From “Abstract of Title,
1476 acres F. Schroeder Survey…,” courtesy of Dena Wenmohs................................. 16
Figure 9. Aerial photograph of part of what is now Pedernales Falls State
Park, taken in 1951. The light rectangular area to the right of the river
near the top of the photo still shows the outline of the field worked by
T.J. Trammell until about 1900, and possibly worked by others until
about 1915. Photo courtesy of C.A. Cowsert, Range Management
Specialist at the Johnson City office of the USDA Natural Resource
Conservation Service......................................................................................................... 20
Figure 10. John B. Wenmohs, with his wife Louise and children
Charles and Patty. Photo from Ottilie Goeth, Memoirs of a Texas
Grandmother, reprinted with permission from Eakin Press......................................... 23
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