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The Wellhouse

When Wilhelm Victor Keidel arrived in Fredericksburg in 1847 as the settlement’s first physician, this site was still a working farm, and Austin Street marked the edge of the Texas frontier. For German settlers carving a life from the rocky hills of the Texas Hill Country, water drawn by windmills and stored in simple wellhouses was essential to survival. These humble stone and wood structures became natural gathering places, sources not only of sustenance, but of stories.