Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of New Braunfels in Comal County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton choppers, including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for improvements to the corn-husking machine with a butt-end cutter for the ears of corn. (lines 9-10)

Patent for a corn husker and chopper. Illustration included.

Patent for new design for a wrench that is a "simple, efficient, and inexpensive one adapted for operating on nuts, pipes, rods and other objects." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.

Patent for nut lock. Illustration included.

Patent for a serving tray with individual spots for various dishes, which turns on rollers intended for use at hotels, restaurants, and boarding houses.

Patent for "combination with a pump-operating crank-shaft and a walking-beam operatively connected with the pump-rod, means for preventing sudden movements of the pump-rod at the ends of its strokes and for assisting in starting the rod in its reciprocations" (lines 10-15).

Patent for a device that allows two pipes to be connected without the need of creating threads on the end of pipes.

Patent for improvements in drills by providing “a frame which may be readily attached to any suitable support and wherein the drill-spindle may be engaged for operation by a common form of chest-brace.” (Lines 9-13) The frame would enable the stock-rest to adjust in proper positions to receive different thicknesses of stock.” (Lines 15-17) Illustration is included.

Photograph of the Plumeyer Bakery Building, in New Braunfels, Texas.

Photograph of the Plumeyer Bakery Building, in New Braunfels, Texas.

Photograph of The Hofheinz House, in New Braunfels, Texas.