Wimberley June 1968 Glows with Rain, Festivals, and Mill News
The Wimberley Mill community enjoys a lush June with twenty seven inches of rain since January, garden blooms, and bobwhite calls. The Fourth of July weekend builds with Market Day, White Elephant Sale, barbeque, bingo, Kiddie Karnival, live music, and a two day Trail Ride along the Presidential Ranch Trail. Charlie Haydon debuts with a piece on local history, and the mill family joins the Smithsonian and Texan Cultures festival in Washington, D.C., July 29, as C. W. Wimberley promotes Stone Milling and Whole Grain Cooking.
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Wimberley
Galliardians
Delphinium
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Chamber of Commerce
Presidential Ranch
Brute Meredith
Charles Haydon
Dripping Springs
Wimberley Mill
Hays County
United States
Charlie Haydon
C.W. Wimberley
R.K
Smithsonian Institution
The
Institute of Texan Cultures
Washington, D.C
W. Wimberely
VIW Post
Ranch Road 12
North
VFW
M&m Rodeo Company
Yorktown
Don Miller
Johnson
Fred Johnson
Wimberley Restoration Association
Eddie Stevenson
WRA
VFW Post
Big Fourth of July Celebration Plans in Wimberley
The 1968 Independence Week events run July 2 to July 6 led by a Presidential Trail Ride sponsored by VFW Post 6441. Riders pay 5 dollars for bed, board, and rodeo entry. applications due June 25. Trail ride begins at dawn July 2 at the Wagon Yard in Stonewall. participants camp at Blanco State Park and attend the first rodeo at the Wimberley rodeo grounds on July 4.
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Wimberley
Cypress Creek
Stonewall
VFW Post 6441
Imberley
Lewis Hunnicut
Blanco State Park
Blanco
The Old Wimberley Mills Story and Town Rodeo
In 1873 Pleasant Wimberley acquired land in Blanco and Llano counties and built mills on Cypress Fork. The site housed a grist mill, flour mill, saw mill, shingle mill, a smut mill, and a cotton gin. By 1890 new flour and mill improvements emerged and by 1912 power shifted to a gasoline engine. The mill ceased after World War I, razed in 1934, leaving only a French buhrstone. A later note advertises a VFW Rodeo on July 5–6 with markets, bingo, and food co sponsored by local groups.
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Pleasant Wimberley
Blanco
Llano
LBJ
Cypress Fork
Rio Blanco
Cypress Creek
Zack
Wimberley
Harry Landa
Grandma Wimberley
Nellie
Hick
Uncle Hick
Rufus Wimberley
Woodsmen Sponsor July River Bank Barbecue
The Woodmen of the World sponsored a Fourth of July barbecue on the river bank with hundred yard long basket dinners. Preachers sampled dewberry pies and complimented each housewife’s cooking, while neighbors listened and enjoyed the gathering before continuation on page 2.
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Woodmen
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Woodsmen