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between Lockhart and Luling
has cooled somewhat. Their high schools no longer compete in football
and both towns have spanking-new HEB stores. Life is good in Caldwell
County. Barbecue aficionados from South of I-10 have never seen the
need to drive the additional mileage to participate in the Barbecue
Wars in Lockhart, since City Market and Luling Barbecue
know what they're doing. Once called "The Toughest Town in Texas",
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Luling
street scene
Photo by John Troesser |
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Luling
roughnecks, circa1935
Courtesy Caldwell County Genealogical Society |
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A Battle Ax plug Tobacco sign appears in Luling, Texas
Photo by John Troesser, 11-2003 |
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Luling's attractive
website can furnish you with information we don't provide here,
while we provide you with what we hope is amusing
history provided by the Caldwell County Genealogical and
Historical Society. This well-oiled facility is found adjoining
the library and can well serve as a model for other cities concerned
about preserving their past. Their website is www.rootsweb.com/~txcaldwe/socpage.htm.
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Luling
watermelon water tower
TE Photo |
Watermelon
Thump Festival
A "world
famous" annual event - Last weekend in June
Nearby Destinations
Hwy 183 S 13 miles to Gonzales
Hwy 183 N 17 miles to Lockhart
Hwy 183 N 47 miles to Austin
I-10 30 miles E to Flatonia.
I-10 20 miles NW to San
Marcos
I-10 34 miles W to New
Braunfels
I-10 59 miles W to San
Antonio
Luling
Tourist Information
Luling
Area Chamber of Commerce -
641 East Davis Street In the Historic Walker Bros. Building, sharing
space with the Central Oil Patch Museum
P.O. Box 710 Luling, TX. 78648.
Phone (830) 875-3214
Website: www.bcsnet.net/lulingcc
Book Your Hotel Here & Save
Gonzales
Hotels
New
Braunfels Hotels
San
Antonio Hotels
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Oil rigs
in Luling
Photos courtesy Margie Warwas |
©
John Troesser
Luling Texas
Forum
Subject:
Morris
Ranch & other places
My wife love going to old places......About 2 weeks ago we went
to the Austin, San
Marcos area (Hill Country) We found Morris
Ranch, no problem with the excellent directions on your website....we
were kind of disappointed that it was all fenced off......the silo
was close enough to the fence to get some good pictures the large
barn was just like on the website but a No Tresspassing sign kept
us from getting closer.......the schoolhouse was incredible but
a big gate was in the way I would have love to look inside.......We
went on to San
Marcos, there we found an old hospital that had at one time
been converted into a college fraternity house, but now is abandonded
with a somewhat spooky history of a fraternity ritual that had gone
wrong ,maybe true maybe not...( I read about it in a book called
Weird Texas, check it out sometime its a cool book)........Also
we found an abandonded saw mill outside of Luling it was
great, [Zedler's
Mills] it was along side the River you can walk right up to
it, of course you wouldn't have wanted to go inside, the historical
marker said it had been abandonded since 1960......As usual I cant
say enough good about your website...who knows where we will go
next.......... Thanks. - Rodney Stegall, November 08, 2005
Subject:
SARG RECORDS
Hello Historic Luling, My name is Graham C. Marshall and I live
in East Yorkshire, England. For a brief period in the seventies
I corresponded with Charlie Fitch of Sarg Records. Does anyone know
anything about him? Is he still alive? I should be very grateful
if you could find someone who could enlighten me. Thanks - Graham,
January 05, 2006
Anyone with stories, photos or incidents of Luling's history is
invited to share them with our readers. Please
contact us.
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