Peter Joseph Ingenhuett Homestead

Comfort's early trade ran on sheep and goats, grain, lime burning, masonry, building rock, lumber and shingles. In the 1940s and 1950s, when the Hill Country was an international wool and mohair center, Adolf Stieler of Comfort reigned as "Angora Goat King of the World." The National Register townsite includes Bolshevik Hall, Turner Hall, a theater and many half-timber and Victorian buildings that survived a disastrous flood in 1978. Secular funerals were still widely held in the twentieth century, and the post office the Ingenhuetts long kept, opened in 1856, was still running in 1980.

What the plaque says

Peter Joseph Ingenhuett Homestead German immigrant Peter Joseph Ingenhuett (1833-1923) came to Texas and settled on a farm near Comfort in the 1850s. In 1861, he married Marie Karger (1843-1913), and they moved into town in 1867. The Ingenhuetts opened various businesses along what is now High Street, including a hotel, saloon, and livery stable. Ingenhuett served for nearly 25 years as the Comfort postmaster. The small cottage at the back of this property was the Ingenhuett home until the larger dwelling at this site was built in 1888. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Treue der Union Monument — 0.4 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Old Tunnel State Park — 11 mi
  A railroad tunnel abandoned in 1942 that now shelters up to three million Mexican free-tailed bats, who fly out each evening from May through October.
• Schreiner Mansion — 15 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Luckenbach — 17 mi
  A store, saloon and dance hall on Grape Creek that a humorist bought in 1971, declared a free state of mind, and turned into a pilgrimage for Texas music.

More markers nearby

• Comfort Community Theatre — steps away
• Hermann and Antoine Ingenhuett Homestead — steps away
• Meyer Hotel Complex — 0.2 mi
• Freidenker — 0.4 mi