The Trail Drivers of Southwest Texas · 1936
In Memory of The Trail Drivers of Southwest Texas who passed this way 1867-1887.
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Historical Markers in Yoakum, Texas
Yoakum is home to 24 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.
Yoakum · 1971
Located on DeWitt-Lavaca county line on land granted by Mexico in 1835 to settler John May. Cattle gathering area for Chisholm Trail. With coming of San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad in 1887, became transportation…
View on map ↗Ruins of Brushy Creek Church · 1973
On 50-acre site donated 1868 for church and school purposes by John H. and Stephen Dunn, in large Irish and Czech Catholic area near the post road trading station of Bovine. It was 1876-1912 Church of St. Joseph's…
View on map ↗The United Methodist Church of Hope · 1976
German pioneers founded this church before 1845. It met in a log hut on Scarborough's Branch, had 23 members in 1850s, used German language in worship, and was in German missions circuit. Christoph and Christina…
View on map ↗Orth-Fitch House · 1983
Will Orth, a railroad conductor and the owner of a local flour mill, built this home in 1910. Soon other prominent Yoakum families began erecting homes on Coke Street, which became known as "Silk Stocking Row." Designed…
View on map ↗Hebron Community · 1984
This rural community traces its roots to the 1840s, when the first wagon train of settlers arrived in the area. The pioneer families built their homes out of the abundant timber available to them and began meeting for…
View on map ↗Pilot Grove Church and Cemetery · 1984
The community of Pilot Grove was named for a landmark grove of trees. One of its first settlers was John Wesley Vick, who brought his family here about 1875. When the need for a community cemetery became evident, Vick…
View on map ↗Terryville · 1986
Founded near this site in the 1850s, Terryville was named for the family of James D. Terry, who served as De Witt County judge from 1883 to 1891. The community raised a cavalry company for the Confederate Army and had a…
View on map ↗Von Hugo-Von Clausewitz Family Cemetery · 1986
(1,000 feet south) The nearby oak grove served as a family cemetery from the 1870s, originally for two Prussian families immigrating to Texas in the 1850s. They sailed to the port of Indianola and settled here, close to…
View on map ↗May-Hickey House · 1988
One of the most important early vernacular dwellings remaining in southeast Texas, this structure was built in the 1840s for the family of John Joseph May. The James Hickey family lived in the house as early as 1861 and…
View on map ↗First Baptist Church of Yoakum · 1989
Yoakum was founded in 1887 when the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad built a line through this area. The town grew rapidly and on April 7, 1889, one month before the town was incorporated, the First Baptist Church…
View on map ↗Holy Cross Lutheran Church · 1991
Lutheran missionaries began serving settlers in the Yoakum area about 1888. The Rev. Cornelius Ziesmer and about ten families organized Holy Cross Lutheran Church on January 27, 1891. Early worship services were held in…
View on map ↗Municipal Power Plant · 1993
After attempts by Yoakum officials to purchase existing electric power facilities failed, the city voted in 1930, at a commission meeting attended by about 300 local residents, to build its own municipal power plant.…
View on map ↗First Methodist Church of Yoakum · 1994
The Rev. Thomas S. Armstrong, sent by the East Texas Conference of the Methodist Church to establish a church in Yoakum, led a small group of Methodists in organizing this congregation on October 28, 1889. The charter…
View on map ↗First Presbyterian Church of Yoakum · 1994
This congregation was organized on December 31, 1893, with the help of Presbyterian Evangelist Dr. A. H. P. McCurdy and 22 charter members, including Thompson Presley, Mrs. M. H. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Harnden, Rosa…
View on map ↗County Line School, Church, and Cemetery · 1997
The County Line School was housed in five different buildings on six different sites, beginning in the 1860s. In 1898, the County Line School District encompassed several miles in De Witt and Lavaca counties. By 1927,…
View on map ↗Hope Baptist Church · 2001
Hope Baptist Church Originally called Shiloh Baptist Church, this congregation was constituted in 1885 with eight charter members, who first met in the Riggs Schoolhouse. The exact location of the schoolhouse is…
View on map ↗St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery · 2010
CATHOLICS IN THE BRUSHY COMMUNITY, WHICH WAS A RURAL SETTLEMENT THAT DEVELOPED BEGINNING IN THE 1830s ALONG THE BRUSHY AND SUPPLE JACK CREEKS, FIRST ORGANIZED A CHURCH AROUND 1847, BUILDING A LOG SANCTUARY. HOWEVER, IT…
View on map ↗Asberry School · 2013
Corner of Aubrey and Pulliam streets
View on map ↗San Pedro Cemetery · 2013
SAN PEDRO CEMETERY ESTABLISHED 1920 HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY – 2012
View on map ↗Yoakum National Bank · 2017
The town of Yoakum incorporated on May 13, 1889, and with a growing population and business, a banking house was needed. W.O. Richardson recognized this need and with the assistance of other community leaders, organized…
View on map ↗Dempsey Benton Cain House · 2019
Mississippi-born Dempsey Benton "D.B." Cain (1869-1967) came to Texas circa 1880 and arrived in Yoakum in 1894. He married Emily "Emma" Bostick (1875-1918) of Yoakum, and they had five sons. After Emma's death, D.B.…
View on map ↗Katolika Jednota Zen Texaskych (K.J.Z.T.)_Catholic Women's Union of Texas · 2019
Czech families came to Texas in the 1800s and bought farms where women worked equally with men to clear land and plant and harvest crops. Despite their efforts, life insurance companies would not sell policies to women,…
View on map ↗Yoakum National Bank Building · 2019
north side of West Grand Avenue in downtown Yoakum between Lott and Irvine Streets
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