King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road

This stone marks the road at Manheim, a farm settlement of German immigrants probably named for Mannheim in Germany. Its post office opened in 1900, and Adolph Wachsmann, postmaster for many years, ran a combined general store, cotton gin, real estate office and saloon. About 1889 the Ebenezer Lutheran congregation moved here from San Antonio Prairie, some three and a half miles away, dedicating a church in the fall of 1890 and building another in 1909. Manheim had about fifty people in 1914; by 1980 it was a scattered community with a church, a hall and one business.

What the plaque says

King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas A. D. 1918

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas Wendish Heritage Museum — 8.3 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.
• Bastrop State Park — 18 mi
  The westernmost loblolly pines in the United States, cut off from the East Texas forest by a hundred miles of post oak, burned almost entirely in 2011 and growing back.
• Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway — 19 mi
  Two park units on an 11,000-acre lake between Austin and College Station, joined by a thirteen-mile trailway for hikers, cyclists and riders with primitive camps along the way.
• Round Top and Festival Hill — 23 mi
  A German village on the old La Bahía Road, named for a house tower, with an 1867 stone church, a Fourth of July kept since 1851 and a concert hall a pianist built without blueprints.

More markers nearby

• King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road — 2.9 mi
• St. John Lutheran Church — 4.0 mi
• Old Evergreen Tree — 5.0 mi
• King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road — 5.6 mi