Adelsverein

The society represented a significant effort to establish a new Germany on Texas soil through organized mass emigration.

Twenty-five slaves were bought to work the property,[5] which initially was considered as the primary base for arriving German immigrants.

[5] Gustav Dresel, Special Business Agent for the Adelsverein, sold Nassau Plantation on July 28, 1848, to Otto von Roeder.

They traveled from Galveston to Indianola in December 1844, then moved inland to land grants acquired by the Adelsverein near Comal Springs.

[2] After Prince Solms returned to Germany, John O. Meusebach was appointed the second commissioner general of the Adelsverein in April 1845.

He founded the first settlement on the outskirts of the land grant, and named it Fredericksburg, in honor of Adelsverein member Prince Frederick of Prussia.

[11] Count Castell[12] negotiated with the separate Darmstadt Society of Forty to colonize 200 families on the Fisher–Miller Land Grant territory in Texas.