Cherry Spring, Texas

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Cherry Spring is an unincorporated farming and ranching community established in 1852 in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located on Cherry Spring Creek, which runs from north of Fredericksburg to Llano.{{Handbook of Texas | name=Cherry Spring Creek| id=rbcdf| retrieved=April 30, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association The creek was also sometimes known as Cherry Springs Creek by residents. The community is located on the old Pinta Trail.{{Handbook of Texas | name=Pinta Trail (El Camino Pinta)| id=ayp02| author=Nixon, Nina L | retrieved=April 30, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association

{{cite web | title=El Camino Pinta |publisher=City of San Antonio | url=http://www.sanantonio.gov/planning/neighborhoods/north%20central/Appendix%20J.PDF | accessdate=April 30, 2010}}City of San Antonio The Cherry Spring School was added to the National Register of Historic Places Listings in Gillespie County, Texas on May 6, 2005.{{NRISref|2010a}} The school was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1985.{{cite web |title=Old Cherry Spring School |work=Texas Historic Markers |publisher=William Nienke, Sam Morrow |url=http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5171010016&search_term=old+cherry+spring+school |accessdate=April 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314204753/http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5171010016&search_term=old+cherry+spring+school |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |url-status=dead }}

Current population is 75. Elevation 1,791 feet.{{cite web | title=Geographical Names Information System, Cherry Spring | publisher=U.S. Dept of the Interior |url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=135:3:970146285889853::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1379538,Cherry%20Spring | accessdate=April 30, 2010}} U.S. Dept of the Interior

Settlers and Community

On December 15, 1847, a petition was submitted to create Gillespie County. In 1848, the legislature formed Gillespie County from Bexar and Travis counties. While the signers were overwhelmingly German immigrants, names also on the petition were Castillo, Pena, Munos, and a handful of non-German Anglo names.

The community was originally settled by German immigrants Dietrich Rode, a director of the original Zion Lutheran Church in Fredericksburg,{{cite web|title=Deidrich Rode Complex|url=http://www.voicesofthetexashills.org/vthhbldg0169.htm|publisher=Voice of the Texas Hills|accessdate=November 18, 2010}}{{cite web|last=Perry|first=Garland|title=Rode, Deidrich|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fro98|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|accessdate=November 18, 2010}} and William Kothe in 1852.{{Handbook of Texas | name=Cherry Spring| id=hnc52 | author=Kohout, Martin Donell | retrieved=April 30, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association Rode also served as a Lutheran lay minister in his home at Cherry Springs, leading to the establishment of Christ Lutheran Church.{{cite web | title=Christ Lutheran Church | url=http://www.christ-lutheran-church.com/christlutheran.html | accessdate=April 30, 2010}} The still active church has some 200 members. Mr. Rode’s original home

{{cite web | title=Cherry Spring | author=Western Ghost Towns | url=http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~gulino/ghosttown/cherry_spring_tx.htm | accessdate=April 30, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811110340/http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~gulino/ghosttown/cherry_spring_tx.htm | archive-date=August 11, 2010 | url-status=dead }} still stands near the church.

The 1860 Census of Gillespie County listed 117 people in Cherry Spring.{{cite web | title=Gillespie County Census 1860 | url=http://www.txgenweb2.org/txgillespie/1860-8.html | accessdate=April 30, 2010}}

John O. Meusebach brokered the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty in 1847, making area settlers safe from Comanche raids. However, Kiowa, and Apache depredations were still committed against the settlers. The most famous white captive of the area was Herman Lehmann.{{cite book | last1 = Lehmann | first1 =Herman | last2=Hunter | first2=J Marvin | last3=Giese | first3=Dale F | title =Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870–1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians | url = https://archive.org/details/nineyearsamongin00herm | url-access = registration | publisher =University of New Mexico Press | year =1993 | isbn = 978-0-8263-1417-8}} Lehmann later ran the cattle drive stop that became the Cherry Springs Dance Hall.

Cherry Spring School

The Cherry Mountain School Complex includes Das Alte Schulhaus (the original school) and the Cherry Spring School. The complex,{{cite web|title=Cherry Mountain School Complex|url=http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/viewform.asp?atlas_num=5171010015&site_name=Cherry+Mountain+School+Complex&class=5000|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|accessdate=December 24, 2012}} the original school{{cite web|title=Das Alte Schoolhaus|url=http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/viewform.asp?atlas_num=5171010016&site_name=Cherry+Spring+School&class=5000|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|accessdate=December 24, 2012}} and Cherry Spring School{{cite web|title=RTHL Cherry Spring School|url=http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/viewform.asp?atlas_num=5171010017&site_name=Cherry%20Spring%20Schoolhouse&class=5000|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|accessdate=December 23, 2012}} were separately designated Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks. The Cherry Spring School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gillespie County, Texas.{{cite web|title=NRHP Cherry Spring School|url=http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/viewform.asp?atlas_num=2005000389&site_name=Cherry%20Spring%20School&class=2001|publisher=Texas Historical Commission|accessdate=December 23, 2012}}