Fischer Homestead

Rebecca Creek was named by a surveyor. Jacob De Cordova gave it his wife's name when he ran lines through this country in the late 1840s, and the springs at its mouth became a significant water source for settlers and farmers. In 1854 Joachim Pantermuehl took up land nearby on the Charles Murhard tract, and the creek's name passed to the farming community that grew around him. In 1882 Julius Bremer conveyed five acres for a school, which was later consolidated with the Sherwood district.

What the plaque says

Fischer Homestead This seven-acre homestead sits at the mouth of the springs of Rebecca Creek, a significant source of water for area settlers and farmers. It was part of the original land grant to early Texas pioneer James Baker for his service in the Texas War for Independence. John Heinrich Fischer purchased the land in 1860, although it is likely he leased it as early as 1857 for the purpose of running his cattle. He and his wife, Auguste (Koch), both natives of Germany, reared their children here. Daughter Anna and her husband, William Klinger, bought the homestead in 1881 and lived in the cabin her father built until 1886. (2001)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natural Bridge Caverns — 16 mi
  The largest known cavern in Texas, found in 1960 by four college cavers under a ranch family's land, entered beneath a 60-foot limestone bridge and still growing.
• Gruene Historic District — 20 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.
• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 22 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.
• Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park — 25 mi
  The Johnson City district of the national park: the Victorian house where Lyndon Johnson grew up, and the stone barns his grandfather built in the Johnson Settlement.

More markers nearby

• Julius Bremer Family and Rebecca Creek School — 3.7 mi
• Benedict and Anetta Kaderli Family — 3.8 mi
• 711 Ranch — 3.8 mi
• Spring Branch Post Office — 4.2 mi