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Welcome sits
on a picturesque curve on Highway 109 between
Industry and Brenham.
It's not a blind curve, but let us say that when you visit, you
should be very attentive to cars following you and oncoming traffic
as well.
The population of 150 people got tired of their sign being stolen
so someone came up with the idea of making it larger (and harder
to conceal). It now reads: Welcome Community. They're still on their
first one.
The town dates
to the 1820s when it was an Anglo-American settlement with
no name. This displayed wisdom since a town with no name can't have
its sign stolen. It took German immigrant schoolmaster J.F.
Schmidt to come up with a name he felt reflected the hospitality
of the town.
A similar naming occurred in
Industry, just down the road, only this time it was the
Anglos (according to legend) who were commenting on the German work
ethic.
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