Talk:Albert, Texas

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13 acres in the heart of the Texas Hill Country only 70 miles from both Austin and San Antonio ...

There’s a house for the new “mayor” plus a dance hall built in 1922 and a much newer tavern, or “Icehouse” as they’re called in this part of the country. Peach and Pecan orchards and a rolling green expanse run to picturesque Williamson Creek.

On the edge of town sits an old stone schoolhouse, attended by a young Lyndon Johnson in 1920. It’s currently used as a community center by the residents of Gillespie County.

Albert sits on land originally owned by a man named Elmeier – his first name is lost to history but not the fact that he was gunned down in a robbery gone bad in the 1880s.

The historic town, once a popular stagecoach stop, is a lot quieter now. ... Albert is now a popular stop for weekend day-trippers in the middle of Texas’ burgeoning winemaking region. Music lovers have also discovered Albert, thanks to the live music performed regularly at the Icehouse.

The town was originally named Martinsburg. That changed with the arrival of Albert and Minnie Luckenbach, descendants of a German family who’d come to this part of Texas in the 1830s. Albert and Minnie established a post office and renamed the town Albert in 1892. They’d done something similar when they moved to the town now known as Luckenbach, made famous by the 1977 Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings hit song “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love).”

Albert Luckenbach was a respected merchant and was known for being one of the few people in the area who never broke a peace treaty with the local Comanche Indians. Albert may also be the only person in the country to have two different towns named after his first and last names.

The current owner has cleaned the place up a bit but left the character intact. The post office is long gone. So too is the general store that operated up until 1985. He salvaged much of the general store to build the Icehouse, including the old meat cooler, which now keeps beer cold.

There’s an outdoor patio and beer garden beneath massive 500-year old oak trees, under which Spanish explorers, early pioneers and Texas Independence fighters once rested. In their place you’ll now find crowds who come to Albert to enjoy the atmosphere of the Icehouse, including live music on weekends.

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67.101.7.208 (talk · contribs) 07:27, 27 November 2007 (UTC).