Mike Muckleroy

The plaque saves the house in a clause; its later home is Henkel Square in Round Top. Faith and Charles Bybee of Houston opened the museum village in 1968 to show nineteenth-century Texas life, and restoration work ran until 1978. SAH Archipedia lists the Muckleroy house among its eleven buildings: a dogtrot whose upper floor has no open passage, with plaster or daub filling the gaps between hewn timbers. In 2010 the Massey family bought the seven-acre square, repaired and rearranged it and added Henkel Hall, an 8,000-square-foot events space.

What the plaque says

Mike Muckleroy (Sept. 27, 1808 - July 28, 1896) Pioneer, farmer, soldier, and county official Mike Muckleroy was born in Franklin County, Tennessee, and came to Texas in 1840. An early and long-time resident of Colorado County, he came to be affectionately known throughout the area as "Uncle Mike." Two years after his arrival in Texas and six years after Texas had won its Independence from Mexico, Muckleroy joined the campaign to expel General Adrian Woll from San Antonio. Woll, a French mercenary, was an officer in the Mexican Army who in 1842 led 1,000 troops to take San Antonio. The Texans soon forced their retreat into Mexico. Muckleroy returned to Colorado County, where he received a Republic of Texas land grant. He farmed the land and built a home near this site. His house, a two-story log structure with a watch tower to guard against Indian raids,was saved from demolition in the 1970s and moved to Henkel Square in Round Top (18 mi NW). From 1846 to 1852 and again from 1876 to 1878, Muckleroy served as a county commissioner. Mike Muckleroy sold his property in 1895 and moved to Terrell in Northeast Texas, where he lived with family members until his death. He is buried in the Muckleroy graveyard near his old homesite. (1985)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Round Top and Festival Hill — 14 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.
• Stafford Opera House — 14 mi
  A cattleman's bank and theater of 1886 on the Columbus square, in a river town Sam Houston burned in 1836 and a county marked by a long feud and a 1935 lynching.
• Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites — 20 mi
  A shared tomb on the Colorado River bluff for the men of the Dawson fight and the black bean lottery, beside the ruins of a German stonemason's spring-fed brewery.
• St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville) — 21 mi
  A wooden Carpenter Gothic church built in 1919 after storm and fire took two before it, its dusty-rose interior painted by an artist whose name was lost for decades.

More markers nearby

• Mary Theresa Juergens — 0.7 mi
• Trinity Lutheran Church of Frelsburg — 2.7 mi
• Frelsburg — 2.7 mi
• Josef Lidumil Leshikar — 3.4 mi