Lavaca County, Texas
Sweet Home has 4 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Lavaca County. The marker list includes records dating to 1999. Common marker themes include churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, railroad, trail, and transportation history, ranching, farming, and frontier settlement. Use this page to preview the markers, then open RoadHistorical on your drive to see nearby stops on the map, listen to narration, and save the places you want to visit.
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Stephen Bennett (1789-1874), a veteran of the War of 1812, and his wife Mary Ann "Polly" Breazeal Bennett (1798-1877), were born in South Carolina and lived many years in Alabama. They led a wagon train to Washington…
View on map ↗The Sweet Home community was originally settled during the mid-1800s. In 1852, a post office was established with Captain J.A. York as postmaster. York also laid out the town (1860) and partnered with the West family,…
View on map ↗From downtown Sweet Home, at the intersection of FM 531 & FM 318 travel east toward Hallettsville for about a 1/2 mile. Turn right on CR 378 for about 40 yards, turn right on CR 378B for about 100 yards to main gate.
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