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| | Handbook of Texas Online: |
 | | Luckenbach, a scenic community on both sides of Ranch Road 1376, 13½ miles from Fredericksburg in southeastern Gillespie County, was settled as a farming community in the late 1840s and early 1850s by several German-speaking families, among them those of brothers Jacob Luckenbach, |
 | | Styling himself the "mayor" and "Clown Prince of Luckenbach," Hondo Crouch, a former swimming champion, actor, and columnist, declared Luckenbach "a free state...of mind" and successfully turned the small community into a foil of the nearby Texas White House down the Pedernales at the LBJ Ranch. |
 | | The population of the former Luckenbach school area in 1995 was about seventy, even though the marker for tourists at the entrance to "old" Luckenbach gave the population as three. |
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