Near Farm to Market Road 775, 1 mile north of Farm to Market Road 2772.
Encompassing 6.814 acres of land, Concrete Cemetery includes within its borders burials for both Anglo and Hispanic citizens of the La Vernia and New Berlin communities. The area surrounding the cemetery was called Concrete (formerly Bethesda). . . . — — Map (db m167638) HM
On Hartfield Road (County Highway 417) 0.6 miles west of Farm to Market Road 539, on the left when traveling west.
The Post Oak Zion Evangelical Church, established in 1885. Served a mostly German community. The families of Gottlieb and Louise Brietzke and Julius and Johanna Schievelbein each donated an acre of land in 1894 to their church for cemetery purposes. . . . — — Map (db m207588) HM
On Farm to Market Road 775, 0.3 miles north of Elm Country Drive (County Highway 340), on the left when traveling north.
Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson (ca. 1814-1883), wife of Almaron Dickinson, killed at the Alamo, survived the battle. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna gave her a letter dated March 7, 1836 for Sam Houston in Gonzales. Susanna travelled east from . . . — — Map (db m167601) HM
On U.S. 87 at San Antonio Road, on the left when traveling west on U.S. 87.
The family of Henry Applewhite (1630-1704), who sailed from England to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1656, remained in Virginia for several generations. Applewhite's descendant, Thomas Applewhite, was born in North Carolina in 1791 and served as a . . . — — Map (db m167784) HM
Beall Cemetery, located in the Young Perry Alsbury Survey, began as a family burial ground on the farm of early settlers Erasmus (Erastus) and Elizabeth Brinkley Beall, parents of six sons and four daughters. The Beall family migrated to Texas . . . — — Map (db m205671) HM
On Bluebonnet Drive (Farm to Market Road 775) at D L Vest, on the right when traveling west on Bluebonnet Drive.
Set to work U.D. June 23, 1858. Chartered June 16, 1859. Named for Dr. Robt. W. Brahan. John Rhodes King, first Worshipful Master. Members included veterans of Texas War for Independence, Mier Expedition, Mexican War, Indian campaigns. They . . . — — Map (db m167780) HM
On Farm to Market Road 539 at County Highway 337, on the left when traveling north on Highway 539.
John Murphy McAlister (1807-1885) and his wife, Isabella (McClain) (1817-1872), settled in La Vernia with their family in the early 1850s. In 1857, they purchased several hundred acres of land on the southwest bank of Cibolo Creek. The natural . . . — — Map (db m167561) HM
On Farm to Market Road 775, 0.3 miles south of Elm Country Drive (County Highway 340), on the left when traveling north.
During the Mexican Administration of Texas, a road connected the settlement of Gonzales in the DeWitt Colony to San Antonio de Bexar, known as the Gonzales Road approximately twenty two miles east of San Antonio, the road crossed the Cibolo Creek, . . . — — Map (db m167597) HM
On U.S. 87 at Bluebonnet Drive, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 87.
This oak tree was grown from an acorn saved from the Deaf Smith tree which stood for almost 180 years on what is now the Circle N Dairy, about 300 yards from FM 775, near the Wilson-Guadalupe County line. In 1835, high up in that tall oak, where . . . — — Map (db m167731) HM
On Farm to Market Road 1346, 0.8 miles north of U.S. 87, on the left when traveling west.
This cemetery traces its beginnings to the formation of Immanuel Lutheran Church of La Vernia, which began in 1901. The congregation, mostly of German descent, soon found itself in need of a cemetery. In 1902, Gustav and Bertha Schroeder donated . . . — — Map (db m167788) HM
On Seguin Road (Farm to Market Road 775) at Hackberry, on the right when traveling west on Seguin Road.
German immigrants settled in the nearby New Berlin community on Elm Creek in the 1870s and founded a congregation known as Christ Lutheran Church. After the arrival of the San Antonio and Gulf Railroad in 1893, many church members moved to La . . . — — Map (db m167657) HM
On Chihuahua Street at Bluebonnet Drive, on the left when traveling west on Chihuahua Street.
Established about 1846 or 1847 by Claiborne Rector, who built a stage stop and blacksmith shop here to serve travelers on the Chihuahua Road, a major trail in early Texas. Main Street today follows route of the old road. Settlement was called . . . — — Map (db m167673) HM
On Bluebonnet Drive (Farm to Market Road 775) at D L Vest, on the left when traveling west on Bluebonnet Drive.
Post Oak Zion Evangelical Church organized 1885. In 1886 it's bell was dedicated. A storm destroyed the chapel in 1929. It was rebuilt in 1940. In 1946 the Evangelicals and United Brethren in Christ merged into the Evangelical United Brethren . . . — — Map (db m167840) HM
On Bluebonnet Drive (Farm to Market Road 775) at D L Vest, on the left when traveling west on Bluebonnet Drive.
Earliest services of this church were held near here, at Bethesda, in 1853 by The Rev. J.S. McGee, a circuit rider. In 1876, La Vernia Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was organized with The Rev. John E. Vernor as pastor. By tradition the . . . — — Map (db m167782) HM
On Farm to Market Road 539 at Polly Lane, on the right when traveling north on Highway 539.
The oil discovery in this field in 1955 was the most extensive and significant in the area. It was preceded, however, by several earlier strikes. Maple C. Hughes, a wealthy rice farmer from Louisiana, drilled the Austin Chalk formation on property . . . — — Map (db m167560) HM
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