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A Rural Texas Road Trip – 25 of 25
Thank you for following our “Road Trip Series”. We leave you with a frame from a cemetery in a German part of Texas. The eastern parts of the state has large groups of German immigrants.
And Germania, on Farm Road 1624 three miles west of Lexington, was established by German immigrants in the 1880s. The community’s name derives from the Latin word for Germany. A school opened there before 1900 and at its height (around 1910) thirty children attended the school. The first Lutheran church in the area was organized in the school, and services were held there until 1891, when the Trinity Lutheran Church was established in Lexington. In the mid-1930s Germania had the old church building and cemetery and a few scattered dwellings. By 1982 only the cemetery marked the townsite.
Today there is nothing but farmland – and the old cemetery.
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