Hebron Community

Hebron's church has a recorded first. The Handbook of Texas says Hebron Baptist Church, established in 1855 under the Rev. Wade Holland, was the first Baptist church in DeWitt County. A school ran here from 1856 until about 1888, when it merged with the Bear Creek school, which is earlier than the plaque's early twentieth century. The earliest grave in Hebron Cemetery dates from 1867, and by 1984 only the cemetery appeared on the county highway map. Former residents were still gathering there from across the state on the first Sunday in May, according to a report from 2004.

What the plaque says

Hebron Community This rural community traces its roots to the 1840s, when the first wagon train of settlers arrived in the area. The pioneer families built their homes out of the abundant timber available to them and began meeting for worship in a one-room log structure. Hebron Missionary Baptist Church was formally organized in 1855 and remains a focal point of the surrounding agricultural area. The community cemetery, first used in 1867, contains the graves of many pioneers, former pastors, and war veterans. Hebron was the site of an area school until the early 20th century. (1984)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum — 16 mi
  A cattle-country museum in Cuero's 1903 Knights of Pythias Hall, telling the Guadalupe Valley's 1866 drive north and the Sutton-Taylor feud that bloodied DeWitt County.
• Spoetzl Brewery — 20 mi
  The brewery a Czech and German railroad town started in a tin shed in 1909, run through Prohibition by a Bavarian who had brewed in Cairo, and then by his daughter.
• Lavaca County Courthouse — 21 mi
  A limestone Romanesque courthouse of 1897-99 on the square of a town founded by a widow trader, in a county seat that once printed the Socialist Party's state paper.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 24 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.

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