Snook

Snook was named for a man who lived elsewhere. In 1895 John S. Snook, the Caldwell postmaster, arranged for the post office at nearby Dabney Hill to move to a point halfway between Dabney Hill and the Czech settlement of Sebesta, and the office took his name. Frank Sebesta's family had settled the crossroads in 1890, and Czechs called it Sebesta's Corner. A separate Sebesta post office opened in 1896 and closed in 1912 as business shifted to Snook, where Dabney Hill and Sebesta families became one community.

What the plaque says

Snook Settled 1880s by Czech immigrants. First called "Sebesta's Corner". In 1895 named "Snook" for John Snook, who helped secure post office. Soon had a one-room school, a "masova schuza" (slaughterhouse), a cooperative store, and lodge for "Czechoslovak Benevolent Society". (1971)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — 9.9 mi
  The library of the forty-first president on the Texas A&M campus, opened in 1997, where George and Barbara Bush and their daughter Robin are buried in a family plot on the grounds.
• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 14 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.
• Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway — 21 mi
  Two park units on an 11,000-acre lake between Austin and College Station, joined by a thirteen-mile trailway for hikers, cyclists and riders with primitive camps along the way.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 22 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.

More markers nearby

• Snook Brethren Church — 0.3 mi
• Fort Oldham — 8.9 mi
• Brazos River Levee — 9.0 mi
• Lyons — 9.3 mi