Fayette County Historical Markers
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NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY- 165
Have -128 Need-37
County named for Marquis de la Fayette who was a French aristocrat , close friend of George Washington and military officer in the American Revolutionary War. County seat is La Grange.
When I think of Fayette County, I think of green fields, blue bonnets and Round Top. La Grange is a much bigger town and has more markers but it is Round Top that comes to mind when I think of Fayette County. It could be because its a quaint country town or the annual Antique Fair (which I have yet to visit but badly want to) or the excellent dinner we had a Royers Round Top Cafe which I'm going to take a minute to talk about because I have never quite experienced anything quite like it. We planned our visit to Fayette County on this day, around dinner at Royers because it was something we wanted to do for a while and they are only open Thursday- Saturday for dinner. So at the end of the day we were really hungry and anticipation had been building all day, we sat and ordered entrees but were brought two complimentary starters one was shrimp jalapeno poppers that were delicious. It didn't stop there I was trying quail for the first time I was brought not only the stuffed quail I ordered but also the grilled quail because the chef wanted me to experience it both ways again the second quail serving was complimentary and were both awesome. Everything was great but I felt like I'd been mistaken for a food critic I also ordered a glass of wine which was a very generous pour and pie to go (because there was no fitting it in and they are famous for their pies) which again was on the house. I would encourage anyone to visit Royers because regardless of whether you get any freebies or not, you will leave feeling like you ate a friends house rather than an anonymous restaurant. On our first visit we stayed at the Olle Hotel in Flatonia we had the place to our selves and the owner said to make ourselves at home and it sort felt like an old house rather than a hotel. The only complaint Steve had was that he was awoken very early in the morning by the trains, I slept through it so they couldn't have been that loud. I would have no trouble staying there again. |
The hardest thing about marker hunting in Fayette County is they do have a lot of markers on private property but every time we visit we seem to be able access anotherodthese, it's just been slow going. There are few missing markers Flatonia City Hospital and Opera House is missing its medallion & plate. The First Roadside Park in Texas and the Original Site of First Oil Mill in Texas subject markers have been missing for many years. I have written to the Fayette County Historical Commission to see if there are any plans to replace them. Rabb House burnt down in 1999. The Earthman Farm had their marker stolen and wanted to replace it but the Historical Commission denied the application due to the text on the marker being unsubstantiated (I think it's just not politically correct, but that's just my opinion). The original Lyons Lodge No.195, A. F.& A. M. is now an auto parts store and almost unrecognizable from the first building the medallion & plate is no longer on the building. In this county it can also be the difference of several years between when the marker appears on the atlas and when it actually is erected.
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7th December, 2019 - On review, all the old private property markers still prove to be difficult, the Texas Historical Commission lists markers for several markers for cemeteries that were added many years ago but I'm unable to confirm these have been placed, there are some new markers that I believe have been stalled due to lack of foundry.
1874 Gus Cranz Mansion
Asa Hill of Rutersville
Assumption of the Blessed Virginn Mary CatholicChurch
Beer Office and Bottling Company
Bermuda Valley Farm
Bernard Scherrer
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Birthplace of the SPJST
Black Jack Springs Cemetery
Boehnke Cemetery
Bradshaw-Killough House
Brandt Cemetery
Breeding Family Cemetery / First School in Fayette County
Brethren Church
Brookfield-Evans-Cremer House
Burham's Ferry
Casino Hall
Carl T. Morene: A Shorthorn Forever
Casino Hall
Cedar Cemetery
Cedar Creek Cemetery
Cesko Narodni Hrbitov
Christian G. Wertzner
City Library Building
Colonel John H. Moore House
Colony Cemetery
Col. William F. Upton
Compton-Zapp House
Connersville Primitive Baptist Church African American Cemetery
Creuzbaur's Battery, C. S. A. - "The Big Guns of Fayette"
Czech Catholic Union of Texas
Dawson Memorial
Dr. William P. Smith
Dubina
Early Texas Hotels & Inns
Earthman Farm
Father Miguel Muldoon
Fayette County
Fayette County Courthouse
Fayette County, C. S. A.
Fayette County Jail
Fayette County Precinct No. 2 Courthouse
Fayetteville
Fayetteville Brethren Church Cemetery
Fayetteville City Cemetery
Fayetteville SPJST
First Roadsite Park in Texas
Flatonia
Flatonia Baptist Church
Flatonia City Hospital and Opera House
Flatonia Methodist Church
Freyburg Methodist Church
Freyburg United Methodist Church Cemetery
Gotcher Trace
Gresser Family Cemetery
Halamicek Cemetery
Hamilton Ledbetter House
Hermes House
High Hill Cemetery
Isaac Lafayette Hill
Jacob Castleman
James Carrell Bell
James J. Ross
James Seaton Lester
John Henry Moore
John Rice Jones
John Vogt Homestead
Joseph C. Robinson
Kallus House
Kaulbach Home
Konrad Joh Log Cabin
Kreische Complex
La Fayette Masonic Lodge No. 34
Lenert House
Ludwig and Caroline Giese House
Lyon's Family Cemetery
Lyon's Lodge No. 195, A. F. & A. M.
Lyon's Lodge No. 195, A. F. & A. M.
Meerscheidt House
Mier Expedition and Dawson's Men
Monument Hill Tomb
Mulberry Creek Bridge
Muldoon Community
Nassau Plantation
Navidad Baptist Cemetery
Old Anderson Place
Old City Cemetery
Old Plum Grove Cemetery
Oldenburg
Olle Hotel
Original Site of First Oil Mill in Texas
Pagel Cemetery
Philadelphia Evangelical Lutheran Church
Phillip James Shaver
Pin Oak Cemetery
Pitman cemetery
Plum Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery
Pochmann House
Rabb House
Rabb's Prairie
Robert Hancock Hunter
Rocky Creek Farm
Round Top
Round Top Community
Rutersville
Rutersville College
Saint Peter and Paul Old Catholic Cemetery
Salem Memorial Cemetery
Samuel Knight Lewis
Sarrazin Store
Shiege Cigar Factory
Shiege Cigar Factory Manager's House
Shiege House
Schueddemagen Home
Schulenburg
Schulenburg Baptist Church
Schulenburg City Cemetery
Schulenburg Community Cemetery
Shiloh Cemetery
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church
Simon Peter Ford
Site of a Twin Blockhouse
Site of Burham's Ferry
Site of First Methodist Annual Conference in Texas
Site of Former Town of Lyons
Site of Svrcek Building
Site of Svrcek Garage
Site of Wood's Fort
Spacek House
S. P. J. S. T. Lodge No. #1
Stephen's Chapel Methodist Cemetery
Stephen Williams
St. James Episcopal Church
St. James Missionary Baptist Church
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
St. John The Baptist Catholic Church
St. Mary's Catholic Church
St. Paul Lutheran Church
St. Peter Lutheran Church and Prairie Valley Cemetery
The Dawson Expedition/Historic Oak
The Faison House
The First U. S. Postal Rural Mail Route in Texas
The Menn House
The Oldest Czech Settlement
The Old Masonic Building
The Reverend Joseph Chromcik
The Rev. Jindrich Juren
The Sladek-Hillam House
Townsend-Bremer House
Travis Street Methodist Church
Turner Hall
United Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
Waldeck Cemetery
Waldeck Evangelical Lutheran Church
Wandke House
Webb-Schneider House
Wheeler Building
William B. Bridgers
William Gorham
Winchester Cemetery
Winedale Stagecoach Inn
Woods Prairie Cemetery
W. S. Robson
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1867
Zapp Building