Meyersville

Adolph Meyer and his sister settled on the north side of Twelve Mile Coleto Creek in May 1846, near the La Bahía Road crossing, and the Handbook of Texas counts Meyersville as the county's second-oldest German community. A log building served as school and Lutheran church from 1851, and in 1866 Lutherans raised a stone church the Handbook calls the county's first. The Egg family sent 14,000 turkeys to the first Turkey Trot at Cuero in 1912. By 1948 the cotton economy had collapsed and the gins stood silent.

What the plaque says

Meyersville Community opened by Peter Bluntzer, an 1843 settler drawing many others from Alsace; named for Adolph Meyer, an 1846 arrival, at whose home post office was established (1851). Lutheran and Catholic churches were founded in 1850s. Public school opened in 1899. Famous turkey-producing area. Population reached peak about 1923. (1971)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum — 11 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.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 17 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Goliad State Park and Historic Site — 19 mi
  Mission Espíritu Santo on the San Antonio River, a mission ranch whose herds seeded Texas cattle country, rebuilt from ruin by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
• Presidio La Bahía — 20 mi
  A Spanish fort on its third site since 1749, held in turn by filibusters, insurgents and Fannin's Fort Defiance, rebuilt in stone in the 1960s around a chapel that never fell.

More markers nearby

• Peter Bluntzer — 1.2 mi
• Site of the Home of Robert Justus Kleberg — 3.0 mi
• Site of the Home of Captain John York — 4.4 mi
• Weser — 5.3 mi