Vysehrad School

Vyšehrad, 'high castle,' is a rock fortress above the Vltava River in Prague, the best-known place of that name; THC does not say what the school's founders had in mind. Local legend says the first settlement that became Prague stood there. In the second half of the 11th century a ruler moved his seat to it from Prague Castle, and the Rotunda of St. Martin dates from that time. In Lavaca County the school kept the name through the consolidations of 1958 and 1966 and has been an independent district since 1978.

What the plaque says

Vysehrad School Established north of Worthing community in 1887, Vysehrad School reflects the area's Czech heritage; the name means "high castle" in the Czech language. Frank Jakubik was the first teacher in the original schoolhouse at this site. It burned in 1905, replaced by a two-room structure and teacherage. By 1935, the school had three teachers serving eight grades. Consolidation with the Brown (1958) and Wied (1966) schools, along with steady growth, led trustees to enlarge facilities over the years. An independent school district since 1978, Vysehrad serves an area of more than 33 square miles as a reminder of the vital role rural education has played in Lavaca County history. (2007)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lavaca County Courthouse — 4.6 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.
• Spoetzl Brewery — 9.0 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.
• St. Mary's Church of the Assumption (Praha) — 16 mi
  The mother parish of the Czech settlements around Flatonia, a stone-fronted church of 1895 whose ceiling Gottfried Flury turned into a turquoise garden, with an August 15 feast since 1855.
• Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church (High Hill) — 20 mi
  A red brick Gothic Revival church of 1906 in a German farm settlement, where two San Antonio painters spent 1912 faking marble columns and stone vaults on wood.

More markers nearby

• St. Mary's Parish — 1.6 mi
• Old Sweet Home — 4.1 mi
• West-Wagner Homestead — 4.4 mi
• First National Bank of Hallettsville — 4.6 mi