Lukefahr School Community

The deed for the school ground was recorded on August 29, 1917, naming trustees W. A. Matthews, M. Patterson and Eugene Watkins, and the school became Common School District No. 6. In 1926 it had seven grades, 16 pupils and an eight-month year. Ice cream suppers in 1914 raised a little over nine dollars, and a two-week revival drew people in 1929. Lukefahr was one of 26 common school districts that Matagorda County merged into five independent districts by 1939.

What the plaque says

Lukefahr School Community In 1910, Casper Lukefahr came with family to this area from Nebraska. He donated property (1 mi. W) for a community school, which was named for him. The school was open until 1939, when the common school district of which it was part consolidated with Van Vleck School District. A rural community developed around the building, which housed primary school students and also functioned as a community center. Residents came to the schoolhouse regularly for church and revival services, and social activities. By 1939, the school districts across the county consolidated into five independent school districts, leading to the decline of this and other rural communities. (2008)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 21 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.

More markers nearby

• Site of Caney Post Office — 2.5 mi
• Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church — 3.1 mi
• Vine Grove Christian Church — 3.1 mi
• First Berean Missionary Baptist Church — 4.6 mi