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Elandel ~ ca 1865
Elandel lay about six miles north of
Luling where the San Antonio Aransas Pass Railroad crosses the West Fork of Plum
Creek. Exactly when Elandel was founded is uncertain. It seems to be scarcely a
mile from the old community of Union Center, founded about the time of the Civil
War. In 1875, on Hoy (sic) Houston's place at Elandel, Gus Birkner erected a
brick kiln that manufactured red brick labeled L & L. A post office was
established in 1902 with Charles Lee Bonney as its first and only postmaster.
The post office was discontinued in 1906. The 1904 Texas Almanac still mentions
Elandel; but with the SAAP railroad declining and the L & L brick industry
disappearing, so, too, did Elandel.
Source - Caldwell County Kin: The First
150 Years published by the Genealogical and Historical Society of Caldwell
County, November 2000.
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