Frydek Catholic Cemetery

Frydek grew up on land with an old Austin colony title. Settlers had patented labores along the Brazos east of the site in the early 1820s, and the Czech town of about 1895 stood on a league south of the San Felipe town tract that had been granted to Stephen F. Austin himself in 1831. Named, apparently, after the Moravian city of Frýdek-Místek, it became a market center for farmers and stockmen. A post office ran from 1901 to 1906, and the school had thirty-six pupils in 1918. The community counted about 150 people from 1964 to 2000.

What the plaque says

Frydek Catholic Cemetery Czech immigrants began settling in this area in the 1850s. They named their new community Frydek after a town in their homeland. When two people died in 1885, they were buried here on land owned by Jan Pavlicek. By 1890, when Pavlicek officially deeded the land to be consecrated by the church, there were thirteen graves in the cemetery. In 1907 the citizens erected a school building here. Used also as a church and nuns' home, the structure was moved to the center of town in 1916. The cemetery remains as a reminder of the area's Czech heritage. (1991)

Where it stands

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