Luckenbach, Texas
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Luckenbach is in Gillespie County on Farm Road 1376 about 4.5 southeast of its intersection with US 290 about 5.6 miles east of Fredericksburg. 

Luckenbach was put back "on the map" in 1977 when Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings recorded the popular song "Luckenbach, Texas."  Baker's original Ghost Towns book has a photo of the Luckenbach store and post office as well as an exterior and interior of a steam-powered cotton gin.  We found the store easily enough, and it's a bit touristy.  There is also a snack bar nearby as well as an outdoor stage with seating for music concerts.  We did not find the cotton gin, however.  We found the place where we think it was once located, but it has apparently been torn down to make way for new housing construction.  (Since first writing this page, I received an email on April 11, 2006 from someone familiar with the area who told me that the cotton gin was washed away in a flood a few years ago.)  We did also find the old school.

 

Welcome to Luckenbach.

 

Photo of the store in Luckenbach appearing on page 91 of Baker's book taken in 1981.
 
Photo from a similar vantage point taken in November 2004.  It's not much changed.  Even the tree is pretty much the same.

 

Restrooms adjacent to the outdoor stage, complete with license plates as decoration.
 
Historical marker outside the old school.  The school and no longer extant cotton gin were located across the Farm Road from the "commercial" area of Luckenbach.
 
The Luckenbach School.  It operated until 1964.