On Main Street at Meyer Street (State Highway 36), on the right when traveling east on Main Street.
Sealy developed on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railway in 1879. Cotton, rice, corn, cattle and related agricultural businesses supported a quickly-growing economy. In 1907, F.W. Hackbarth, Jr. and his son, John Hackbarth, developed commercial . . . — — Map (db m162564) HM
On Main Street at West Front Street, on the left when traveling east on Main Street.
German natives F.W. (Fritz) and Carolyn (Krampitz) Hackbarth arrived in Galveston in 1846 with their two sons. They settled in Austin County, where Fritz farmed and ranched, and the couple had four more children, including F.W. Hackbarth, Jr. . . . — — Map (db m162567) HM
On North Hardeman Street, 0.1 miles south of Columbus Road (Farm to Market Road 1094).
Daniel Haynes (1828-1913) came to the new railroad town of Sealy in 1881. In 1885 he invented a process and a machine to manufacture a felted cotton, non-tufted mattress. Trademarked under the Haynes name, the mattresses were sold throughout the . . . — — Map (db m162570) HM
On Hardeman Street at Main Street, on the left when traveling north on Hardeman Street.
This house was built in 1901-1902 for H. Schumacher. It was purchased in 1906 by Richard H. Haynes (1875-1942) who, with his father, founded the Haynes (Sealy) Mattress Company in 1909. Local confectionery store owner F.J. Felcman bought the . . . — — Map (db m162558) HM
On Lux Road at Peschel Lane, on the right when traveling south on Lux Road.
Sealy's German immigrants were famous for their love of music. A group of men, some of them Sealy's pioneer settlers, had formed a singing society, called Liedertafel, by 1899. They met primarily in the home of Ferdinand Lux. Lux and Fritz Kinkler, . . . — — Map (db m71567) HM
On Farm to Market Road 949, 0.8 miles east of Farm to Market Road 2429, on the right when traveling west.
German immigrants arriving in Texas during the 1840s soon established singing societies in their new communities to carry on the traditions of their homeland. Although in existence by 1856, the Millheim Harmonie Verein officially organized in . . . — — Map (db m177073) HM
On 6th Street at Atchison Street, on the right when traveling west on 6th Street.
Completed in 1911 for civic leaders Paul and Mahala Hackbarth, this concrete block house is an unusual example of vernacular architecture. Prominent features include a wraparound porch, Ionic columns on piers, and large wood sash windows. The . . . — — Map (db m162563) HM
On Main Street at Fowlkes Street, on the left when traveling east on Main Street.
German immigrant Adolph H. Preibisch and his wife, Emilie, came to Austin County in 1860. After the town of Sealy developed along the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad, the Preibisches bought property in the new railroad town. In 1885, Adolph . . . — — Map (db m162569) HM
On Meyer Street (State Highway 36) at 6th Street, on the left when traveling north on Meyer Street.
This congregation was organized in 1885, five years after the railroad town of Sealy was founded. Among the Church's early supporters was railroad official George Sealy, for whom the town was named and who served on the Missionary Board of the . . . — — Map (db m162562) WM
On Main Street at North Hardeman, on the right when traveling west on Main Street.
Founded in 1879 on the route of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad, Sealy was named for Galveston businessman and railroad president George Sealy (1835-1901). By January 1880 a depot was established here, and both freight and passenger . . . — — Map (db m162559) HM
On Main Street, 0.1 miles east of 2nd Street, on the left when traveling west.
In 1879 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company agent George Sealy purchased 11,635 acres at this location from the township of San Felipe de Austin for the purpose of establishing a railroad depot. The village of Sealy soon developed around . . . — — Map (db m162576) HM
On Atchison Street at 4th Street, on the right when traveling north on Atchison Street.
After preaching his first sermon in Sealy on February 11, 1883, Lutheran Missionary Reverend John Trinklein organized the Trinity Lutheran Church Congregation on October 31 of that same year. In the beginning, most of the congregation was of . . . — — Map (db m162561) HM
