Cherry Spring, Texas
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Cherry Spring is east of US 87 in Gillespie County about 1.5 miles south of the Gillespie County/Mason County line.  There is not much to see except a school.  The cemetery pictured in Baker's More Ghost Towns book is behind a locked gate and is not accessible to the general public.  There is a 1930s-era photograph of the house of a founder of the town, but that house is privately owned and is behind a VERY private fence.  The two photos I took of it were snapped from a ways away, and the house is barely visible.  But one can confirm that it is the same house as pictured in the book.

 

The 1930s-era photo of the Diedrich Rode house on page 31 of Baker's book.  To photograph the building from this angle today would require getting onto private property.
 
Above and below are two photos of the house in 2004.  Because of the (very) high, wood pole fence all along the street-side boundary of the property, it is virtually impossible to get a decent snapshot of the house.  But the two-story porch is visible in both, as is the roof structure in the photo below, and both confirm that it is the same building.

The current owners undoubtedly value their privacy.  However, I don't apologize for taking these photos.  If you're going to live in a historic structure, complete with a State of Texas Historical Commission marker out front (see below), you have to expect tourists and sightseers to stop and read the sign and maybe snap a picture or two. 

 

Update added 6/12/08:  I received a very nice email from the owners of this house, and they invite interested parties to stop by and snap photos.  Tours of the house and grounds can be arranged by contacting them ahead of time.  The high fences are there to provide some privacy, but they have deliberately built the fence to decrease in height as you move away from the house to make taking photos easier. 

 

 

 

The historical marker descibing the Diedrich Rode complex of buildings at this site.  Rode was an important citizen of Cherry Spring and built the first school.
 
Historical marker describing the Old Cherry Spring School.
 
The building behind the school sign.  I guess it's the building on the right, but, like the cemetery, it was behind a locked gate, and it's apparently lived in now as a house.