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Frederick William Grasmeyer: Fayette County’s First German Settler
Frederick William Grasmeyer was born on Christmas Day 1800 in Hamburg Germany. He was one of the first German citizens to immigrate to Texas and the first to acquire land in present day Fayette County. On August 4, 1831 he received title to a quarter league of land (1107 acres) in Stephen F. Austin’s Little Colony. Grasmeyer’s land was along the Colorado River about midway between the La Bahia…
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