Bermuda Valley Farm

The doctor who traced this track with his buggy went on to a long career in the Texas Senate. Isaac Edgar Clark, a Schulenburg physician born in 1860, won a special election in July 1913 for District 18, which took in Austin, Colorado, Fayette and Lavaca counties. He chaired the Stock and Stock Raising committee in three sessions, led an inquiry into a bubonic plague appropriation, and was twice elected president pro tempore. Dean of the Senate by 1923, he resigned in November 1924 and died at Schulenburg in 1928. The marker stands at a private entrance.

What the plaque says

Bermuda Valley Farm Site of noted race track (50 yds. N) laid out 1889 by Dr. I. E. Clark, state senator and physician who owned this farm. Although he had planned a 1/2-mile oval track, the course he traced (free style) in his buggy measured 5/8 mile. Later it was graded, using mule-drawn "Fresnos" (old-fashioned scoops for moving earth). The track was chartered 1894 by the state for the Schulenburg Livestock and Fair Association. Famous horses ran here in its heyday. Here, too, Clark and son Harvey bred 2 of Texas' most famous horses "Orb" and "My Dandy." Cars later raced here. (1969)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church (High Hill) — 3.6 mi
  A red brick Gothic Revival church of 1906 in a German farm settlement, where two San Antonio painters spent 1912 faking marble columns and stone vaults on wood.
• Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church (Dubina) — 6.9 mi
  The church of Texas's first Czech settlement, under a sky-blue painted ceiling that was whitewashed in the 1950s and brought back from faint traces by its own parishioners.
• St. Mary's Church of the Assumption (Praha) — 8.7 mi
  The mother parish of the Czech settlements around Flatonia, a stone-fronted church of 1895 whose ceiling Gottfried Flury turned into a turquoise garden, with an August 15 feast since 1855.
• St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville) — 9.2 mi
  A wooden Carpenter Gothic church built in 1919 after storm and fire took two before it, its dusty-rose interior painted by an artist whose name was lost for decades.

More markers nearby

• Turner Hall — 0.9 mi
• Site of Former Town of Lyons — 1.2 mi
• Lyons Family Cemetery — 1.3 mi
• Schulenburg — 1.3 mi