Moulton

The railroad station that became Moulton was first called Topeka. When the San Antonio and Aransas Pass built two miles southeast of the old town in 1887, the old town's post office was renamed Moulton Institute between 1888 and 1894, after the school. The station community took the Moulton name by the late 1890s. The name's origin is disputed: a town in Kentucky or Alabama, a settler named E. L. Moulton, or live oak motts. Czechs and Germans settled here in the 1890s, and by 1914 the town had a bank, an opera house and a weekly, the Eagle.

What the plaque says

Moulton Founded (about 2 miles northwest) in early 1850s. Moved to this site after 1887 when the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad extended its line from Yoakum to Waco, placing a station at this point. Sam and Will Moore, brothers, took lead in building an outstanding school here in 1901. Town remains an agricultural and shipping center. (1970)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Mary's Church of the Assumption (Praha) — 7.9 mi
  The mother parish of the Czech settlements around Flatonia, a stone-fronted church of 1895 whose ceiling Gottfried Flury turned into a turquoise garden, with an August 15 feast since 1855.
• Spoetzl Brewery — 10 mi
  The brewery a Czech and German railroad town started in a tin shed in 1909, run through Prohibition by a Bavarian who had brewed in Cairo, and then by his daughter.
• Lavaca County Courthouse — 15 mi
  A limestone Romanesque courthouse of 1897-99 on the square of a town founded by a widow trader, in a county seat that once printed the Socialist Party's state paper.
• Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church (High Hill) — 16 mi
  A red brick Gothic Revival church of 1906 in a German farm settlement, where two San Antonio painters spent 1912 faking marble columns and stone vaults on wood.

More markers nearby

• Adolph Hofner — 0.3 mi
• St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church — 0.7 mi
• Moulton's World War II Observation Tower — 1.3 mi
• Old Moulton — 2.1 mi