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'Indian Days House' tells stories of early Texans | Community Alert


Legend, lore and local memories hover over this old house. The structure is one of the oldest permanent dwellings in Comal County. Old it is, and certainly old to be so far out of New Braunfels. The current address for the place is 7600 FM 2722. Back in the day, it was about 13 miles north out on Bear Creek Road on the way to the Sattler. The Sattler community then included Mountain Valley, Walhalla, Hidden Valley and Marienthal. 
Exactly when it was built is a mystery. Gottfried Preusser came to Texas in Sept 1845 with his wife, Louise Busch, and five children. His eldest, Johann Georg, was old enough to get his own land grant from the German Emigration Company. Did Gottfried build the house? History tells us his next child, Johann Phillip, got married in 1855. One account has Phillip (we will call him that because I get confused since all the sons have Johann as their first name) living in a log cabin and building the house in 1858. Another version states Phillip and wife ....

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