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The leader of this hardy-but-exhausted group of German immigrants was formally titled Baron Ottfried Hans Von Meusebach. He had shed any pretension of nobility since arriving in America and preferred to be called John O. Meusebach.  Such modesty notwithstanding, Meusebach was an able leader with an eye for good land and careful planning: the city plot that lay at the confluence of those two water sources--now named Town Creek and Baron’s Creek, the latter reflecting John’s hereditary rank--rose just north of the Pedernales River and was an ideal setting for a new settlement.

Laid out similar to the German villages that also were built along waterways, Fredericksburg--named in honor of one of its sponsors, Prince Frederick of Prussia--featured a wide main street which more or less paralleled Town Creek.  As each of the new settlers had been offered one town lot in addition to their promised ten acres of rural land, the town began to take shape quickly. Its first buildings, making use of the abundance of Hill Country natural wood and stone, were constructed of oak timbers interspaced with hewn rock, then plastered and whitewashed to soften their appearance. As the city grew, many of these buildings were replaced with locally quarried limestone, giving the town architectural muscle and an air of growing prosperity.

Fredericksburg continued to expand as a commercial center for other immigrant trains that were moving west and north. After only two years, it boasted a population of 1,000 citizens actively involved in commerce and agriculture. John Meusebach, displaying his innate flair for diplomacy, concluded a pact with the Comanche Indians that ended the sometimes-violent confrontations between settlers and Native Americans.