Fayetteville

The settlement went by several names before Fayetteville. In 1835 it was Wadis Post Office; it was also Alexander's Voting Place, after the revolutionary veteran Jerome B. Alexander, and Lick Skillet, supposedly because latecomers to its many festivals, finding the food gone, were told to lick the skillet. By the 1870s nearly all the Anglo families had left and the town was largely Czech-Moravian, and after the Civil War most Czech immigrants to Texas went to Fayetteville first. After an 1893 fire burned one side of the square, it built a waterworks and a fire department.

What the plaque says

Fayetteville 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, Fidelie S. Breeding, James Monroe Hill - veterans of San Jacinto. Andrew Crier, William Hill, Dr. William P. Smith of the San Jacinto Campaign. Asa Hill, Jeffery B. Hill, John C. C. Hill - members of the Mier Expedition.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas Wendish Heritage Museum — 24 mi
  A museum at Serbin of the Wends, a Slavic people from Lusatia whose congregation of nearly 600 crossed on the Ben Nevis in 1854, losing seventy-three to cholera on the way.

More markers nearby

• Phillip James Shaver — steps away
• The Reverend Joseph Chromcik — 0.2 mi
• The Rev. Jindrich Juren — 1.5 mi
• James J. Ross — 4.7 mi