Lockhill School

The school's old name came from a railroad stop. Shavano grew around a store run by A. De Zavala, who became postmaster when the Shavano post office opened in 1881. In 1884 the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway put a station and switch here, and the community shipped corn, cotton, hay and livestock while daily stages ran to San Antonio and Boerne. About 100 people lived there in the 1890s, but the post office closed in 1903. The land later became part of the Stowers Ranch, and Shavano Park incorporated in 1956.

What the plaque says

Lockhill School One of Texas' oldest public schools; operated continuously since 1868. Named in honor of Wm. J. Locke, who donated land. Originally school was held in a supply depot (1 mi. SW). School was named "Shavano" for some years. The present structure was built in 1923. SUPPLEMENTAL PLATE: Marker, gate structures, and archway moved from earlier site (1 mi. SW) in 1985. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spanish Governor's Palace — 11 mi
  The last visible piece of the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar: a presidio captain's house with a 1749 keystone, a century as shops and saloons, and a romantic 1930 restoration.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 11 mi
  The Canary Islanders' parish church on Main Plaza, where Bowie married and Santa Anna raised a red flag, rebuilt in Gothic Revival around the walls of the 1750s church.
• Casa Navarro State Historic Site — 11 mi
  The adobe and caliche-block home of José Antonio Navarro, a native-born signer of the 1836 declaration, and the last remnant of the Tejano neighborhood called Laredito.
• The Alamo — 11 mi
  Mission San Antonio de Valero before it was a fort: a church its builders never finished, a thirteen-day siege in 1836, and the Army gable of 1850-52 that became its emblem.

More markers nearby

• Evers Family Cemetery — 4.8 mi
• Huebner-Onion Homestead and Stagecoach Stop — 5.2 mi
• John "Jack" Coker — 5.5 mi
• Jefferson Davis Smith — 5.5 mi