Name/Title
Ed Tewes [Cover]Description
1893 cover from "HAENEL & HELLMANN, / MARION, Guadaulupe Co. , Texas" addressed to "Mr / Ed. Tewes / New Berlin / Tex."Context
Haenel and Hellmann, moved to Marion from a settlement on Santa Clara Creek. By the mid-1880s, Marion had steam, grist, and saw mills, two cotton gins, four general stores, a church, a district school, and 250 residents.
Ed Tewes built the first store at New Berlin, and the town had a post office from 1878 to 1906. By the mid-1880s New Berlin had two steam gristmills and cotton gins, a general store, and seventy residents. The community served as a shipping point for cotton, cottonseed, corn, and oats. In 1904 fifty-six students attended the one-teacher school. The population of New Berlin fell to forty in 1949. The town was incorporated in 1980, when 253 residents were reported. In 1990 the population was 188.