Snook Brethren Church

The Brethren church stood among a small Czech world. The Handbook of Texas lists a cooperative store from the late 1880s, a candy store, a saloon, a school and a lodge hall for a Czechoslovak Benevolent Society, then a Slavonic Benevolent Order hall in 1910 and Moravia School in 1914. Several small schools consolidated at Snook in 1935, and the Snook district formed in 1949. In the 1960s the school was integrated with the nearby Jones School, which had served Black students.

What the plaque says

Snook Brethren Church During the 19th century, many families from Bohemia and Moravia emigrated to Texas. They brought their Czech traditions, including beliefs of the Brethren Church, established on religious teachings of reformer Jan Hus. Settlers to this area founded the community of Sebesta, later known as Snook, in the 1870s. In 1886, the Rev. Henry Juren of Fayetteville performed baptisms for the Czech-Moravian Brethren Church, which met in private homes. The Rev. Adolph Chlumsky conducted regular services in 1891, and members built their first sanctuary in 1913. The Christian Sisters Society was organized by 1928, and the church grew over the years. It remains an important part of the community. (2006)

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 — 0.3 mi
• Fort Oldham — 8.6 mi
• Brazos River Levee — 8.8 mi
• Lyons — 9.3 mi