Lange's Mill

The community around the mill outlasted its post office. In 1880 it received its mail from Cherry Spring, and in 1898 a post office called Lange opened there with Julius Lange as postmaster. By 1914 the Lange's Mill community had some 150 residents, a Baptist and a Lutheran church and a general store. The post office was discontinued in 1917, and the community's mail went to Doss. A historical marker was placed at the mill in 1936, and in the early 1990s the mill, still in the Lange family, was standing but had been closed to prevent vandalism.

What the plaque says

Lange's Mill Established in 1849 by Doss brothers. Operated 1859-1878 by William F. Lange, 1878-1888 by Julius Lange. Its products were famed throughout the region. One of the last of the old burr mills in Texas, one of few in as perfect a state of preservation. Near by on a cliff are Indian pictographs.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve — 14 mi
  A limestone cave on the James River where about four million Mexican free-tailed bats raise their young each summer, kept open to visitors by a family's gift.
• Enchanted Rock State Natural Area — 18 mi
  A dome of pink granite north of Fredericksburg that rises some 385 feet above Sandy Creek, creaks as it cools at night, and has drawn people for thousands of years.
• Fort Mason — 20 mi
  A reconstructed officers' quarters on Post Oak Hill above Mason, standing where the army's stone fort was taken apart by the town that grew up below it.
• Vereins Kirche and Main Street — 20 mi
  The octagonal Society Church on Fredericksburg's market square, rebuilt in stone in the 1930s, beside a main street laid out like a Rhine village.

More markers nearby

• Squaw Creek Primitive Baptist Church — 2.3 mi
• Doss School — 2.3 mi
• Squaw Creek Cemetery — 5.4 mi
• The Marschall-Meusebach Cemetery — 7.6 mi