Site of Neusser (Naizerville)

Johann Neusser reached New York about December 20, 1871, and settled among Czech and Moravian families at Ammannsville in Fayette County, where he worked as a blacksmith. After he bought a farm on Yankee Branch in 1881, relatives and neighbors from Fayette County followed, including the Janak, Bartos, Zurovec and Pecka families. The Neusser post office ran from December 30, 1892, to May 21, 1894, but the area kept the name, later spelled Naizerville. Its farmers also kept a beef club, each month butchering one neighbor's animal and sharing the meat.

What the plaque says

Site of Neusser (Naizerville) Moravian immigrant Johann Neusser (Jan Naizer) came to Texas in 1872 and settled in Fayette County. In 1881, he and a number of fellow immigrants moved their families to this area. The Georgetown and Granger Railroad Company built a line through Neusser's land in 1890, and soon a general store and dance hall were built near the rail line. Initially surveyed as Keliehor for another area landowner, the community officially was named Neusser in 1892 when a post office was established. The construction of a depot in nearby Granger led to the demise of Neusser by the early 1900s. (1992)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Williamson County Courthouse — 8.5 mi
  The fifth Williamson County courthouse, a Beaux Arts building by C. H. Page, rises over a Georgetown square of more than 50 Victorian-era buildings.
• Inner Space Cavern — 10 mi
  A Georgetown cave found in 1963 when highway engineers drilled test holes, holding Pleistocene fossils and 72-degree rooms that visitors reach by an artificial tunnel.
• The Round Rock — 15 mi
  A table-shaped stone in Brushy Creek gave Round Rock its name in 1854; the Chisholm Trail crossed the creek near it, and Old Town stayed behind when the railroad pulled the town east.

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