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Friday, July 13, 2012

Geo-RoadTrip: Marking Time #25 - Bruhl's Drugstore

The Llano County Historical Museum is the former location of Bruhl's Drugstore.

And they've got the historical marker to prove it:


The marker reads:

"Louis Herman Bruhl (1849-1931) immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1867.  He became an American citizen in 1870, the same year he married Leonie Julia Hammale.  A merchant and a pharmacist, Bruhl lived in Waco and Rockport, and served as U.S. consul in Italy (1894-1899) before moving to Llano to open a drugstore in 1900.  His son Adolph (1876-1937), also a pharmacist, joined him in business.  The drugstore building they erected here in 1922 was donated by the Bruhl family to the County Historical Society in 1965 and was later remodeled for a museum."


You can see lots of antique drugstore related paraphernalia inside and was as a variety of historical exhibits.


The area is also home to "llanite", a rhyolite:


More pictures and video from Geo-RoadTrip 2012 coming soon!