On Chihuahua Street at Bluebonnet Drive, on the left when traveling west on Chihuahua Street.
Mexican cart road from central Mexico to Texas Coast at Indianola. Route of marauding Indians as well as Alsatian, German, Polish, Irish immigrants seeking freedom in New World. After 1835 was important in gold and silver exporting; in 1850s for . . . — — Map (db m167675) HM
On Farm to Market Road 539, 0.2 miles south of Polly Lane, on the left when traveling north.
Joseph Henry Polley (1795-1869) was born in Whitehall, New York to Jonathan and Rachel Hubbard Polley. He later moved to Missouri, where he was a friend of Moses Austin, with whom he traveled to Texas in 1820. The next year, he returned to Texas . . . — — Map (db m167557) HM
On U.S. 87 at Bluebonnet Drive, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 87.
This bell from the Rector Chapel rang for church services and community emergencies. Built in 1876, the Rector Chapel Presbyterian Church was the first Church organized in La Vernia. Originally located across the Cibolo on FM 2772 where the Rector . . . — — Map (db m167730) HM
On Farm to Market Road 2772 east of FM775, on the right when traveling east.
William Robert Wiseman (1816-1888) was a successful farmer and owned the first cotton gin in La Vernia. William Claiborne Rector (1805-1873), a hero of San Jacinto, farmed, served as postmaster and provided horses for the local stage line. The two . . . — — Map (db m209260) HM
On U.S. 87, 0.1 miles east of Bluebonnet Drive, on the right when traveling west.
Following the Civil War, two brothers, both Union veterans, moved from Zanesville, Ohio to Texas. Isaac Suttles (c. 1840-1884), who wed Mary Ann McBride in 1866, appears in the 1870 census for Seguin, where he worked at Wilson Potteries. Records . . . — — Map (db m167774) HM
On Farm to Market Road 39, 0.5 miles south of Polly Lane, on the left when traveling south.
Built by Joseph Polley (1795-1869), one of "Old 300" settlers of Stephen F. Austin, and the first Austin colony sheriff. From Fort Bend and Austin counties, he at last settled here, where he had cattle herds called largest in Texas. In 1847-51 he . . . — — Map (db m211995) HM
On County Road 151 west of County Road 128 when traveling west.
Most of Saspamco’s early population was derived from Mexican immigrant laborers employed by the San Antonio Sewer Pipe Works Company. The laborers of the sewer pipe factory and other local residents wanted a place of worship. The land for a church . . . — — Map (db m208745) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 87) at South 9th Street, on the left when traveling west on West Main Street.
Congregation organized 1871 by the Rev. R.M. Leaton, with 2 charter members. Circuit riders first held services here in a picket schoolhouse. J.R. King, early Texas settler, patriot, and state legislator, gave this site in 1876 for church. Present . . . — — Map (db m167392) HM
Adventurer-soldier of early Texas. Fought in Mexico to win freedom for the unsuccessful "Republic of Rio Grande" in 1840. Was elected sheriff of Refugio County and organized a company of minutemen. In 1842 he fought against three Mexican raids . . . — — Map (db m203596) HM
On South 7th Street, on the right when traveling south.
This home was constructed in 1898 for Robert and Rachel Emma (King) Smith. Rachel was the daughter of John R. King, an early Texas military and political leader. His descendants have owned the home since its construction, except for the years . . . — — Map (db m208005) HM
On Farm to Market Road 1681 at County Highway 438, on the right when traveling east on Highway 1681.
The community of Nockenut began in 1857, when a number of German and Polish immigrants settled in this area. Originally located in Guadalupe County, it became part of Wilson County after a boundary change in 1869. A post office opened in 1858, and . . . — — Map (db m207564) HM
On Cemetery Street, on the left when traveling north.
Before the Stockdale Cemetery was begun in the 1870s, most burials in the area took place in private, family graveyards. About 1873, however, a young man who was not related to any of the local settlers was thrown from his horse and killed. To . . . — — Map (db m203487) HM
On South 7th Street at West Person Street, on the right when traveling north on South 7th Street.
Stockdale Baptists organized their church in 1874 in a picket building. They met there or in a mill house or schoolhouse for years. The Rev. L.S. Cox was the first pastor. In 1885, under Pastor E. Norwood. The congregation erected its first church . . . — — Map (db m167393) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 87) at South 4th Street, on the left when traveling west on West Main Street.
Last governor of Confederate Texas. Legal scholar and statesman. Born in Kentucky. Admitted to the bar there. Came to Texas in the 1840s. Bought and developed extensive coastal lands. President in 1859 of the Indianola Railroad. Later Legal . . . — — Map (db m167394) HM
Alabama natives Emory Crawford Barker (1839-1914) and Leah Humphreys (1842-1931) both came to the area with their families in the early 1850s. Emory served in Co. G of Terry’s Texas Rangers during the Civil War. He and Leah married in 1866 and had . . . — — Map (db m205637) HM
On Farm to Market Road 539 at East 3rd Street, on the left when traveling north on Highway 539.
Pattillo “Pat” Higgins was born in 1910 in Houston to Pattillo “Bud” Higgins, Sr. and Annie Jahn Higgins. Bud owned oil properties in Chambers and Bexar Counties and, in 1925, began to purchase land in Sutherland Springs. . . . — — Map (db m167547) HM
On 4th Street (Old Hwy 87) at 14th Street, on the left when traveling west on 4th Street (Old Hwy 87).
Outstanding early-day Southwest Texas Health Spa. Had 27 flavors of mineral water, from over 100 hot and cold springs. (Indians used curative waters here before white settlement.) Resort was founded in 1848 by Dr. John Sutherland (1792-1867), who . . . — — Map (db m167490) HM
Dr. John Sutherland (1792-1867), a native of Danville, Virginia, came to Texas in 1835. While helping the Texians prepare to defend the Alamo against the Mexican army in 1836, he suffered an accident with his horse, rendering him unable to fight. . . . — — Map (db m211544) HM
On 2nd Street, 0.1 miles east of Farm to Market Road 539, on the left when traveling east.
The Sutherland Springs Community was founded by Dr. John Sutherland and Joseph H. Polley in the 1850s. Both men were concerned with the need for a school in Sutherland Springs where social institutions had not yet developed. Early schools were . . . — — Map (db m167491) HM
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