Pleasant Hill School

Before it was Pleasant Hill it was Krug, and the name lasted twenty-five days. Kenney Krug ran the store and became postmaster when the post office opened on March 4, 1878; the community took the name Pleasant Hill on March 29. By 1882 it had two churches, a school and 350 people, mostly German immigrants who processed and shipped cotton, corn and lumber. They held a Schuetzenfest, a shooting match and ball, in 1896. But Phillipsburg, Muellersberg and Brenham drew the trade, the post office closed on January 20, 1896, and most residents left.

What the plaque says

Pleasant Hill School Originally the town of Krug, the community of Pleasant Hill is located in southernmost Washington County. As more settlers moved to the area, the need for schools emerged in rural parts of the county. Pleasant Hill School was located on two different sites, according to school records. The first was in Krug and was a one-room wood structure with a small front porch, typical of rural Texas schools of the time. In 1911, the school was classified as an intermediate school with one teacher. The second site was purchased in 1918 and was located on the corner of Pleasant Hill School Road and Dierking Road. Funds from the Rural Aid Fund were used to erect a new building. Pleasant Hill School remained small until it merged with the Wonder Hill School and Salem School in 1954. Through the consolidation process, land ownership passed to the Brenham Independent School District and was then sold to a private owner. Students of the Pleasant Hill School recall riding their horses to school each day and participating in community activities such as gathering scrap iron on the playground and knitting quilt squares for the war effort. Trustees, teachers and parents gathered in the summer months to repair and maintain the school, and many volunteered to provide transportation to and from classes and activities. Dedicated to the education of their children, the community devoted time and energy to the school in the hopes that their descendants would have access to more educational opportunities. (2016)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 15 mi
  A crossroads north of Brenham that was the richest town in Texas when it won Baylor University in 1845, refused the railroad, and lost the college to Waco and Belton in 1886.
• Round Top and Festival Hill — 19 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.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 20 mi
  The townsite on the Brazos where delegates met in a cold, unfinished hall in March 1836 to declare Texas independent, with Independence Hall rebuilt and Anson Jones's Barrington farm worked as in 1850.
• Star of the Republic Museum — 20 mi
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.

More markers nearby

• Salem Lutheran Church — 1.7 mi
• Germania Mutual Aid Association — 2.3 mi
• 100th Anniversary Brenham "Banner-Press" — 2.5 mi
• Brenham — 2.7 mi