Our Lady of the Holy Rosary
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Marker No: 13256

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.397966,-96.654091

Location: ​in the Frenstat community; from Caldwell, travel 7 miles south on US 36, then west on FM 976 to FM 2774 and south 0.8 miles

Marker Text: In 1884, Catholic settlers from Czechoslavakia first arrived in this area. They named their settlement Frenstat for the community they had left, Frenstat Rod Radhost, Moravia. By 1887, the Rev. Joseph Chromcik regularly visited Frenstat. That year, Adolf Polansky sold land to the Galveston Diocese for school, church and cemetery purposes. Members met in the schoolhouse until building a sanctuary in 1889. During the next few decades they formed men's and women's service organizations. Since that time, the congregation, now part of the Austin Diocese, has grown in membership and facilities, which include a grotto of the Virgin Mary of Lourdes. (2005)