DeWitt County, Texas
Meyersville is home to 4 official Texas Historical Commission markers — each one telling a piece of the city’s story. Browse the markers below, then find them on the map and discover more nearby with RoadHistorical.
who came to Texas in 1834. Fought at San Jacinto in Captain Moseley Baker's Company. Senator in the State Legislature. Born in Herstelle, Germany, September 10, 1803. Died at Yorktown, Texas, October 23, 1888. A Texas…
View on map ↗Early German colonizer in this are and donor of land on which this church stands. Migrated with his wife and children from Oderen, Alsace (in Europe), to Texas about 1843. Bound for Castroville with other pioneers, he…
View on map ↗Community opened by Peter Bluntzer, an 1843 settler drawing many others from Alsace; named for Adolph Meyer, an 1846 arrival, at whose home post office was established (1851). Lutheran and Catholic churches were founded…
View on map ↗ST. JOHN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CEMETERY PASTOR CHRISTOPH ADAM SAGER ESTABLISHED THE ST. JOHN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND CEMETERY AT THIS SITE IN 1851. THIS IS THE FIRST LUTHERAN CONGREGATION FORMED IN DeWITT COUNTY…
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