Historical Markers in Moulton, Texas

Site of the Camp of the Texas Army · 1936

March 15, 1836 under the command of General Sam Houston while retreating from Gonzales to the Brazos River. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Isaac D. Hamilton · 1956

Came to Texas from Alabama in January 1836. A member of Captain Jack Shackelford's Red Rover Company under Colonel Fannin's Command, March 18-19, 1836. Miraculously escaped from the Goliad Massacre. Erected by the State…

Moulton Lodge No. 298, A.F. & A.M. · 1969

First meeting held July 20, 1866. Chartered June 15, 1867, with 18 members. First building erected in cooperation with Live Oak Church, in 1874. Through the years, this Lodge has shared its building with other groups.…

Moulton · 1970

Founded (about 2 miles northwest) in early 1850s. Moved to this site after 1887 when the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad extended its line from Yoakum to Waco, placing a station at this point. Sam and Will Moore,…

Old Moulton · 1970

At this point was center of original town of Moulton (named, according to tradition, by a man from Moulton, Alabama). First postmaster was James Walker (1856). Town gained statewide fame for the Moulton Institute…

Old Boehm Store · 1971

This was site of first business in "New" Moulton, founded 1887 on advent of San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad. In the same year, Edward Boehm (1854-1920) built a frame store; enlarged it in 1897; and in 1906…

Sam and Will Moore Institute · 1973

Name honors brothers who gave site and half costs of building; the community matched their donation. Architect: H. Struve. Contractors: Joel Meyer & Co. Order of Sons of Hermann laid cornerstone July 31, 1901, in a gala…

Sam and Will Moore Institute Bell · 1973

At institute's opening (1901), this bell rang the school day hours and soon became town's fire alarm. Its proudest day of civic use was November 11, 1918, when it sounded news of the armistice ending World War I.…

Orrin L. Winters Cabin · 1974

Originally a two-room cabin, built about 1853 near the Lavaca River (2 miles northeast) by Orin L. Winters (1811-1902), a native of Tennessee. He lived in the structure until 1873. About 1902, the oak log cabin was torn…

Zion Lutheran Church · 1986

Circuit-riding pastors served the religious needs of German Lutheran settlers of this area as early as the 1870s. A group of worshipers met to organize a congregation in March 1902. Land was purchased and construction…

St. Joseph's Catholic Church · 1988

One of the oldest communities in Lavaca County, the town of Moulton was originally located about two miles from the current townsite. When the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad completed a line through the area in…

Old Moulton Cemetery · 1991

Although local oral tradition holds that there may be older interments, the earliest documented grave in this cemetery is that of Louisa Lattimer (1842-1857). Early settlers Robert H. and Eliza J. McGinty deeded some…

Site of Baursville School · 1993

Early settlers August Baur (1841-1902) and his wife Emilie (1848-1901) donated five acres about 1.5 miles north of this site for a community school in 1881. A one-room school building was erected shortly thereafter.…

Site of Oak Grove School · 1993

According to local tradition, Oak Grove School was established as early as 1882 and named for a grove of post oak trees located near the school's original one-room building. The school, which probably offered primary…

Site of Komensky School · 1995

Citizens of the Czech/German Woods Prairie settlement created a fund and hired a carpenter in 1895 to build a community school. By fall 1895 a one-room schoolhouse, named for 17th century Czech (Moravian) educator and…

Site of Moore Hotel · 1996

William J. and Mary O'Daniel Moore moved to Texas from Alabama with their family in 1845, and settled in Lavaca County in 1853 on 500 acres. Moore was a farmer and raised livestock. Their son Samuel B. Moore also became…

Novohrad School · 2007

For decades, Novohrad School provided educational opportunities for children living in the rural Bohemian community of Novohrad. By the 1880s, Novohrad, which took its name from a town in Bohemia, was a growing…

Culak's School · 2009

Dickson School · 2010

The Lavaca County School Board established the Dickson School District as District No. 32 in 1886. The district encompassed 28.8 square miles and was named after early pioneer and lawman William Dickson. A one-room…

St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church · 2013

ST. PAUL’S AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) CHURCH Following the civil war and emancipation, the small but vibrant black population around Moulton began to be served by missionaries of a newly formed offshoot of the…

Cotton Grove Dance Floor and Store · 2014

Following World War II, hundreds of soldiers came home from the battlefield to the rural areas of Lavaca County. The returning veterans needed a place to gather, socialize and enjoy their victory. Soldiers and their…

Witting School · 2014

In the 1870s to 1880s a considerable number of German-speaking immigrants migrated to northwestern Lavaca county. One of them was George Witting, who was a wealthy commission merchant originally from Columbus, Texas.…

Moulton's World War II Observation Tower · 2015

Prior to the widespread use of radar, elevated observation towers placed along the coastline provided early warning against axis air attack during World War II. Organized in May 1941 by the U.S. Army Air Corps as the…

Adolph Hofner · 2017

Adolph Hofner was born in Moulton in 1916 and became an early pioneer of the musical genre called western swing, popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. His musical repertoire encompassed western swing, pop, blues,…

Dr. Hugo J. Strieder · 2019

BORN ON MARCH 21, 1907, IN A SMALL FARMHOUSE FOUR MILES EAST OF MOULTON NEAR THE SMALL HAMLET OF KOMENSKY, HUGO J. STRIEDER KNEW AT A YOUNG AGE THAT HE WAS DESTINED TO BE A DOCTOR. FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS, HE GRADUATED…