Terryville

The Handbook of Texas starts Terryville with Bob Alexander, who settled the spot in 1850. Brothers James and John Terry opened a store there in 1852, and the place took their name. Mail came on horseback from Victoria until a post office opened in 1869. The first school was built in 1870 with lumber from a nearby mill, and a Methodist church met at the site now called Old Terryville Cemetery. After the town moved about three miles southeast in 1886, it still had three groceries, a gristmill and a steam gin around 1890.

What the plaque says

Terryville Founded near this site in the 1850s, Terryville was named for the family of James D. Terry, who served as De Witt County judge from 1883 to 1891. The community raised a cavalry company for the Confederate Army and had a post office by 1869. The post office and most residents moved in the 1880s to a new location 2.5 miles away. The community prospered until the early 20th century. The post office was discontinued in 1907. The old cemetery remains at the first townsite, while a Baptist church still exists at the second location. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum — 14 mi
  A cattle-country museum in Cuero's 1903 Knights of Pythias Hall, telling the Guadalupe Valley's 1866 drive north and the Sutton-Taylor feud that bloodied DeWitt County.
• Spoetzl Brewery — 20 mi
  The brewery a Czech and German railroad town started in a tin shed in 1909, run through Prohibition by a Bavarian who had brewed in Cairo, and then by his daughter.
• Lavaca County Courthouse — 21 mi
  A limestone Romanesque courthouse of 1897-99 on the square of a town founded by a widow trader, in a county seat that once printed the Socialist Party's state paper.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 25 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.

More markers nearby

• Hebron Community — 1.4 mi
• Stratton — 5.1 mi
• The United Methodist Church of Hope — 5.5 mi
• Katolika Jednota Zen Texaskych (K.J.Z.T.)_Catholic Women's Union of Texas — 10.0 mi