DeWitt County Historical Markers

NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY - 113

Have - 95  Need - 18

            Named after Green DeWitt the county founder. County seat is Cuero. This is one county I enjoy driving through especially during wild flower season but it is also a county I don't feel has received our best effort. The first time visited we stayed in Gonzales and I had forgotten about all the beautiful houses in Cuero until doing this review. Also I didn't have a real sense of why we are missing so many of the markers after having visited at least two or three times. As I was looking over the markers we still need to capture it started to come back to me. This is a very old part of Texas and that means private property and hit or miss access, also it had been raining on at least two occasions we visited and that doesn't bode well for traveling through pastures or even some of the dirt roads. 
    I can really see myself spending a couple of hours visiting the antique stores in Cuero. Dewitt County has an active historical commission so there many new additions since our last visit. So another expedition definitely needs to happen. I have written to the DeWitt County Historical Commission to ask about the Yorktown marker which we failed to locate, to see if the Asberry School, Taylor Family Cemetery and Yoakum National Bank marker were dedicated and to find a contact to access the May-Hickey House and Lord Cemetery, so hopefully I will hear back. 

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14th July, 2019 - We are about to relook at least part of DeWitt County and hope to be able capture some new and old markers alike. Again there are several on private property and that takes time and the right weather conditions because it tends to mean tracking across pastures and farm roads that quickly become boggy, so we'll see what that will look like. The courthouse once had a medallion and plate and I'd like to know for the sake of completeness what happened to it. The Yorktown marker also seems to be missing, it may of been hit by a car. DeWitt County is trying to track it down. 

11th August, 2019 - This is the flip side of the trip I mentioned above. We didn't try for too many of the old markers on private property because the true object of the trip was Victoria. We did capture some of the new markers  and a few we hadn't go to before. Peggy Ledbetter from DeWitt County Historic Commission has been very helpful and has asked us to reach out to her when we are next Cuero, so I am hopeful that we can finishe the set. The Yorktown historical marker is missing ? stolen ? taken out by truck. Dewitt County plans on replacing it if they cannot locate it. 

Adolph Strieber
Alexander and Annie Hamilton House
Allen Caruthers
Arneckville
Asberry School
Bellevue-Cheapside
Buchel Bank
Buchel Community and School
Burns Station Cemetery
Cabeza
C. Eckhardt and Sons Building
Charles A. Schlinke
Charles Goodwin Breeden
Clinton
Concrete College
Co-Founders of Yorktown John York & Charles Eckhardt
County Line school, Church and Cemetery
Cuero
Cuero Land and Immigration Company
Cuero I Archeological District
Daule School
DeWitt County
DeWitt County
DeWitt County Courthouse
Dewitt County Courthouse
Dr. William Watt White
Early Texas Bandstands
Eckhardt Ranch House
Emil Reiffert House
English-German School
First Presbyterian Church of Cuero
First United Methodist Church of Cuero
General August C. Buchel
George Lord
George Washington Davis
George Washington Davis
Gohmert - Summers House
Golly Hollow School and Community
Grace Episcopal Church
Gruenau Turn and Schuetzen Verein
Heaton - Breeden House
Hebron Community
Hephzibeth Looker Taylor
Hillside Cemetery
Hochheim
Hochheim Cemetery
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Holy Cross Catholic Church
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Hopkinsville Community, A Colony of Freemen
H. W. Laging
James F. Blair
James Madison Bell
James Norman Smith
John T. Wofford Home
Josiah Taylor
Jubilee Park Pavillon
Judge Henry Clay Pleasants
Keller-Grunder House
Knights of Pythias Hall, Jewel Lodge No. 103
Leonard Roy Harmon
Lindenau
Lindenau Community Cemetery
Lithuanians in Texas
Lockhart Community Cemetery
Lord Cemetery
May-Hickey House
Meyersville 
Morgan Steamship Line
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Municipal Power Plant
Nancy Shows 
Nordheim Shooting Club
Old Chisholm Trail
Old Chisholm Trail Centennial Monument
Peter Bluntzer
Pilot Knob
Proctor-Green House
San Pedro Cemetery
Shiloh
Site of Cameron, First County Seat of DeWitt County
Site of Friar-Caldwell Stage Stand
Site of the Home of Captain John York
Site of the Home of Robert Justus Kleberg
Sociedad De Cementerio Union Mexicana Cemetery
Stagecoach Inn
Stagecoach Inn, 1856
St. Ann's Cemetery
Stevens Cemetery
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
St. Michael's Catholic Church
Stratton
Taylor Family Cemetery
​Terryville
The Alexander Hamilton House
The Bates - Sheppard House
The Breeden House
The Edward Mugge House
The Five-Mile (Ratcliffe) Rabke Community
The Robert Allert House
The William Frobese Home
Thomas M. Stell
Thomaston
Thomaston Cemetery
Upper Yorktown Cemetery
Von Hugo-Von Clausewitz Family Cemetery
Westhoff
World War II Air Training School Brayton Flying Field
Yoakum National Bank
Yorktown
Zion Arneckeville Cemetery