1866 Kruger Farm

Peek into the life of the Fritz Kruger family, not long after they emigrated to Texas from the Dessau region of Germany. Thirteen children were raised in the one-room log cabin, with the girls sleeping in the loft and the boys on the porch, in the yard and the barn. Meals were prepared in the outdoor kitchen, where you can smell biscuits baking in the Dutch Oven and a meaty stew bubbling in the large cast-iron pot. The stacked cedar-post fence that rings the yard contains a Devil’s Gate, a gate without hinges that was popular in 1800s Texas and whose colorful name is only part of its history.