CAVE CREEK, TEXAS

Gillespie County, Texas Hill Country

FM 1631
About 10 Miles NE of Fredericksburg
Population: Unknown

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Cave Creek TX - St. Paul Lutheran Church

Cave Creek City Limit and St. Paul Lutheran Church
Photo courtesy Will Beauchamp, 2011

Cave Creek - History on a Pinhead

This once all German-settlement dates from the second half of the 19th Century and was named after the nearby watercourse, a tributary of the Pedernales River. The population never got large enough to pose a threat to Fredericksburg , and it’s more than likely that its nearness to the county seat curtailed Cave Creek’s growth. The cemetery, also known as St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery holds the remains of the community’s earliest settlers, but there are only scattered residences and no discernable town center.

Photographer's Note:
"Cave Creek TX - Located about 12 miles east of Fredericksburg on FM1631. Scattered residences with many new developements and homes coming in with the expanding growth of nearby popular Fredericksburg. The photo of the city limit sign tells it all, you enter and leave at the same time!" - Will Beauchamp, March 2011

Cave Creek Historic Landmarks

St. Paul Lutheran Church
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

Cave Creek School next page
On the National Register of Historic Places

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Gillespie County TX - Cave Creek School 50th Anniversary

Photo courtesy Will Beauchamp

Cave Creek School
On the National Register of Historic Places

Cave Creek Texas - St Paul's Lutheran Church

St Paul's Lutheran Church
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, 2003

St. Paul Lutheran Church Historical Marker
Photo courtesy Will Beauchamp, 2011

Historical Marker

St. Paul Lutheran Church

Oldest rural Lutheran church in Gillespie County. The Rev. M. Haag served as first pastor. Charter members numbered 17.

A frame building with walls of rough boxing planks was dedicated June 22, 1884. Size: 25 x 30 feet with a 40-foot tower. Cost: $600. In 1890 building was enlarged, interior finished, beaded ceiling installed. Altar niche was added, interior finished with sheet rock and exterior covered with tin in 1928-29.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1969

St. Paul Lutheran Church weather vane
Photo courtesy Will Beauchamp, 2011

Cave Creek TX - St. Paul Lutheran Church 1884 cornerstone

St. Paul Lutheran Church 1884 cornerstone
Photo courtesy Will Beauchamp, 2011
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Cave Creek TX - St. Paul Lutheran Church and Cemetery

St. Paul Lutheran Church with the view of the Cemetery
Photo courtesy Will Beauchamp, 2011
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