• Alfred M. Hallmark
  • First Baptist Church of Zephyr
  • Military Road
  • Belle Plaine Cemetery
  • Community of Fodice
  • Providence Church and Cemetery
  • Packsaddle Mountain
  • No. 59 Old San Antonio Road
  • Anderson County in the Civil War
  • Smithfield Baptist Church
  • Phair Cemetery
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TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS

​Site of
St. Mary's Catholic Church
​and Cemetery

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Marker Text: ​The first of many Czech immigrants to settle this area purchased from Galveston developer E.H. Fordtran in 1891. Four Czech families founded St. Mary's Catholic Church in 1892. The first recorded burial here, on land donated by Frank Divin, Sr., was that of Antone Blinka in 1893. The Rev. A. Laska established the site as a Catholic cemetery and in 1895 the church built a sanctuary on four adjoining acres. The community faltered after the devastating storm of 1900. The church closed in 1947. St. Martin de Parres Church in Prairie View took over the cemetery's care in 1977. (1985)
Marker No: 8111
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Picture
Geographic: 30.031799, -95.944534
Location: ​2 miles south of Waller on FM 362
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  • Alfred M. Hallmark
  • First Baptist Church of Zephyr
  • Military Road
  • Belle Plaine Cemetery
  • Community of Fodice
  • Providence Church and Cemetery
  • Packsaddle Mountain
  • No. 59 Old San Antonio Road
  • Anderson County in the Civil War
  • Smithfield Baptist Church
  • Phair Cemetery
  • New Page
  • New Page
  • New Page