Schulenburg

One of the men who gave land for the town, John Christian Baumgarten, Sr., was a Forty-eighter from Germany. He built a cottonseed-crushing plant here and ran a lumberyard, a planing mill, a sash and door factory and a gin, and in 1883 he opened the Schulenburg Oil Mill, which made Baumgarten Process Allison Flour from cottonseed. The town had electric lights by 1896, and in 1945 its 112 businesses included the Stanzel Company, a model airplane factory, and polka music remains part of its heritage.

What the plaque says

Schulenburg German and Czech settlers used this gateway to the rolling hills of Fayette County. Settled by former residents of Lyons and High Hill in 1873, when the Galveston, Houston & San Antonio Railway reached here. Named for landowner Louis Schulenburg, town was incorporated in 1875. (1970)

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Site of Former Town of Lyons — 1.4 mi
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• Dubina — 5.6 mi
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