How did the German migration change the landscape of Central Texas?

After , Mexican-Americans, and African-Americans, the ethnic group with the largest impact on Texas has been the Germans.

By 1930, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, persons born in Germany or whose parents where born there made up a full 36 percent of "foreign white stock" in Texas. The next largest group was from Czechoslovakia at 11.5 percent.

The German-Texan culture started in 1831, when Frederick Ernst acquired land in Austin County near Industry. Within a couple of years his neighbors included other German families, such as the , a family later to become associated with the King Ranch in South Texas.

The largest immigration of Germans came in the 1840s when the (The Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas) organized at on the Rhine near Mainz. It assisted thousands in coming to Central Texas and establishing such settlements as New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.

they remained in rural areas and worked at jobs such as lumbering or farming.