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Wimberley Mill

Location

Wimberley, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 01, 1968

Page

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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.

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.

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.

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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