Fredericksburg Pioneer Museum
— the rooms that kept the town when the town moved on.
Not only on a wall.
Fredericksburg Pioneer Museum, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A 3.5-acre campus of moved and saved buildings on West Main, kept by the Gillespie County Historical Society since 1955. The Kammlah House, built in 1849 and lived in by the same family for four generations, anchors the grounds. A smokehouse, a blacksmith shop, a log cabin, a one-room schoolhouse: each piece of the town the town outgrew.
The place, in three passes.
The Pioneer Museum sits along West Main Street in Fredericksburg, Texas, about half a mile west of Marktplatz in Gillespie County. The campus covers 3.5 acres and holds roughly ten nineteenth-century structures, some original to the site and others moved in from surrounding farms. It is operated by the Gillespie County Historical Society, founded in 1934 by descendants of the original German settlers to preserve what was being lost as the old farmsteads were sold and broken up after the Second World War.
The museum opened in 1955 with the Kammlah House at its center, built in 1849 by Henry Kammlah as a home and general store and lived in by four generations of the family before the Society acquired it in 1954. Other buildings followed: the Fassel-Roeder House from the 1870s, the Walton-Smith Log Cabin, the Weber Sunday House. The Society continues to move and restore at-risk Hill Country buildings, adding to the campus as funding allows.
The Pioneer Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 4, with adult admission around $7.50. The Kammlah House is the centerpiece, with the original kitchen hearth, store counter, and family bedrooms intact. The campus is walkable in about ninety minutes. The Historical Society also operates the Vereins Kirche octagon a few blocks east on Marktplatz under the same membership. School groups and Sunday house tours run on a posted schedule, and the on-site archive serves genealogy researchers tracing Texas-German lines.
