old glory

 

Old Glory is a community in Stonewall County.  While I was standing in the middle of the road photographing, Dewey Dudensing stopped his pickup to ask if I knew the history of the town.  Settled by Germans around 1900, the original name was Brandenburg.  The outbreak of World War I and rising anti-German sentiment caused the settlers to petition the Post Office to change the name.  The residents chose Old Glory to reflect the community's patriotism.  The post office still remains in Old Glory but the school, church and mercantile are gone.  Dewey says the few remaining houses have been sold to hunters as deer camps.  Dewey was on way north arrowhead hunting -- his odds were probably better than searching for rumored buried Spanish treasure or lost gold or silver mines. 

 

Old Glory, Texas

Loop 128 off US 380 and FM 1835

Stonewall County, Texas