Breeding Family Cemetery
(300 yards northwest, across the highway)
David and Sarah Davis Breeding came to Texas from Kentucky and settled here in 1833 with sons John, Richard L., Napoleon B., Fidelio S., and Benjamin W.; John, . . . — — Map (db m84667) HM
Built 1874 by Czech-Moravians. Near site of first Czech protestant worship service ever held in Texas, in 1855.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1964 — — Map (db m183910) HM
Fayetteville citizens raised $600.00 in private funds, received $200.00 in tax money from the County Commissioners' Court, and built this Victorian precinct Courthouse in 1880. A ball held in the new building netted funds for painting. The 2-cell . . . — — Map (db m183382) HM
Stage station on the Old San Felipe Trail founded by James J. Ross. John Crier, James Cummins - members of Austin's first colony • nearby resided William J. Russell, participant of the Battle of Velasco • Jerome B. Alexander, Fedelie S. . . . — — Map (db m239479) HM
Originally known as the Czech-Moravian Brethren Evangelical Cemetery at Ross Prairie, this site serves Texas' second oldest congregation of the Unity of the Brethren, whose members settled here in the early 1850s. This group hosted the first Czech . . . — — Map (db m183911) HM
This burial ground has served Fayetteville since early in the community's history. The earliest recorded burial, of Cass Fisher, dates to 1851. Other notable burials include surgeon, military leader and public servant Dr. William P. Smith and . . . — — Map (db m183342) HM
The Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas, known in English as the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas (SPJST), is a fraternal organization founded by Czech-Texans in 1896 at the Fayette County Courthouse in La Grange. For . . . — — Map (db m183369) HM
When their infant daughter, Klara, died in 1899, Frank and Josephine Pustejovsky laid her to rest on this land owned by relatives Peter (1857-1927) and Rosina (1859-1919) Krystinek. Later that year, the Krystineks conveyed one acre around her grave . . . — — Map (db m183332) HM
North Carolina native Phillip Shaver (1814-1875) settled in the Fayette County community of Rutersville c. 1840. Two years later, he joined the Texas Army to defend area settlers from Indians and Mexican soldiers and also received from the Republic . . . — — Map (db m183370) HM
In 1897, the S.P.J.S.T. Supreme Lodge formed in La Grange with 25 lodges. Lodge No. 1 in Fayetteville voted to purchase land and in Oct. 1910, construction of a hall and two ancillary buildings was complete. The vernacular style wood-frame dance . . . — — Map (db m183343) HM
German brothers Edward and Leopold Sarrazin, who opened a mercantile store in 1875, moved their business to this building in 1890. They sold groceries, dry goods, and hardware in the front part of the building and had an office in the back. Feed, . . . — — Map (db m183423) HM
Built 1937
By W. C. Langlotz - Mayor Lee Heinsohn - Alderman
R. C. Sladek - Alderman
Emil Zapalac - Alderman
Emil Chalupa - Alderman
Ed. Sarrazin - Alderman
A. Listvan - Marshall
V. M. Ehlers - State
Sanitary Engineer
J. C. . . . — — Map (db m183380) HM
An 1890s commercial building on this site was used throughout the 20th century. The rectangular plan, frame construction building featured a false front, supported awning and double doors flanked by windows. Frank Svrcek owned several lots on the . . . — — Map (db m96290) HM
Frank Svrcek owned a commercial building here in the 1890s. The rectangular frame building with stepped parapet had two pairs of doors, one tin and the other wooden. Walter Meinen’s Chevrolet dealership in the 1920s, and later Harry Cordes’ garage, . . . — — Map (db m96291) HM
Many Czech and German immigrants settled in this area in the mid-1800s. After many years without the services of a Czech-speaking priest, the Czech community sent Konstantin Chovanec and John Vychopen to ask Galveston Bishop Claude-Marie Dubuis for . . . — — Map (db m183339) HM
In the 1850s, families of German and Czech origin in the Ross Prairie area were served by visiting priests. After 1855, they worshipped in a log church (2 mi. N) named Saint Joseph, the first permanent Catholic Church in Fayette County. The church . . . — — Map (db m184104) HM
Lutheran worship in this area dates to 1851 when Pastor J.C. Roehm of Basel, Switzerland, organized the first Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Texas and then began preaching, establishing St. John Lutheran Church of Ross Prairie in 1859. In 1894 the . . . — — Map (db m183396) HM
Jindrich (Henry) Juren was born in Hradiste, Bohemia, on March 20, 1850. A protestant minister's son, he studied theology at several universities and became fluent in Czech, English, German, French, and Polish. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1876 as . . . — — Map (db m183877) HM
Czech Catholics, who settled in Fayette County in the mid-1850s, were initially served by area priests. Eventually they petitioned the Bishop of Texas for their own Czech priest, and in 1872 the Rev. Joseph Chromcik (1845-1910) arrived from Europe. . . . — — Map (db m183337) HM
German native Hugo Zapp established his mercantile business in Fayetteville in 1865. In 1900, after a fire had burned his wooden store at this site, Zapp had this 2-story brick building constructed. Intended to be the finest structure in the city, . . . — — Map (db m61300) HM
