Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Marion, Texas, Northcliff, Texas, Seguin, Texas, Schertz, Texas, Geronimo, Texas, Zuehl, Texas, New Braunfels, Texas, San Marcos, Texas, Universal City, Texas, Santa Clara, Texas, Redwood, Texas, Cibolo, Texas, McQueeney, Texas, Selma, Texas, New Berlin, Texas, Kingsbury, Texas, Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District, Greater San Antonio, Farm to Market Road 78, Farm to Market Road 725, Prairie Lea Independent School District, Lake McQueeney, Staples, Texas, San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District, Comal Independent School District, Lake Dunlap, Farm to Market Road 1044, Farm to Market Road 1103, Concrete, Texas, New Braunfels Independent School District, Farm to Market Road 464, Meadow Lake, Lake Placid, Sebastopol House State Historic Site, Farm to Market Road 465, Farm to Market Road 477, Navarro Independent School District, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Seguin Independent School District, Nixon-Smiley Consolidated Independent School District, La Vernia Independent School District, Luling Independent School District, Zorn, Texas, Guadalupe College, Marion Independent School District. Excerpt: New Braunfels (pronounced ( listen)) is a city in Comal and Guadalupe counties in the U.S. state of Texas that is a principal city of the metropolitan area. Braunfels means "brown rock" in German; the city is named for Braunfels, in Germany. The city's population was 57,740 as of the 2010 census, up 58% from the 2000 census population of 36,494. It is the seat of Comal County. New Braunfels has a sizeable German Texan community. During the 19th century, its name was often spelled Neu-Braunfels, even by English speakers. New Braunfels was established in 1845 by Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels, Commissioner General of the Adelsverein, also known as the Noblemen's Society (in German: Mainzer Adelsverein). Prince Solms named the settlement in honor of his home of Solms-Braunfels, Germany. The Adelsverein organized hundreds of people in Germany to settle in Texas. Immigrants from Germany began arriving at Galveston in July, 1844. Most then traveled by ship to Indianola in December, 1844 and began the overland journey to the Fisher-Miller Land Grant purchased by Prince Solms. At the urging of John Coffee Hays, who realized the settlers would not have time to build homes and plant crops further inland before winter, and as the German settlers were traveling inland along the Guadalupe River, they stopped near the Comal springs. Prince Solms bought two leagues of land from the Rafael Garza and Maria Antonio Veramendi Garza for $1,111.00. German immigrants on the way to New Braunfels (1844)The land was located northeast of San Antonio on the El Camino Real de los Tejas and had the strong freshwater Comal Springs, known as Las Fontanas when the Germans arrived. It was also approximately halfway between Indianola and the lower portions of the Fisher-Miller land grant. The first settlers forded the Guadalupe River on Good Friday, March 21, 1845, near the present day Faust Street bridge. As the Spring of 1845 progressed, the settlers built "Zinkenburg", a fort named for Adelsverei