Weimar Railroad Depot

The plaque tells the founding in a sentence; the Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal fills in 1873. In April the railroad bought its depot site from Daniel Washington Jackson, who supplied a 320-acre tract and required lots set aside for churches, schools, parks and burial grounds. The depot stood by June 20, and the first two lots sold on August 28 and 29. Weimar grew faster than any other railroad town in the county, while Oakland, Content, Osage and Holman faded. In 1876 Weimar refused an invitation from Schulenburg and Flatonia to join a proposed Menefee County.

What the plaque says

Weimar Railroad Depot Weimar was founded in 1873 when T. W. Peirce, president of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad, built a depot here on property of D. W. Jackson (1829-1904). Peirce and Jackson shared the profits from sale of town lots. Before the coming of the railroad, transportation had posed a major problem for this area. Named for a German town that Peirce admired, Weimar quickly became a leading trade center. The first depot was replaced in 1925 by the present structure. In 1972 the Southern Pacific Railroad donated the building for use as the Weimar Public Library. (1977)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church (Dubina) — 3.7 mi
  The church of Texas's first Czech settlement, under a sky-blue painted ceiling that was whitewashed in the 1950s and brought back from faint traces by its own parishioners.
• St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville) — 7.5 mi
  A wooden Carpenter Gothic church built in 1919 after storm and fire took two before it, its dusty-rose interior painted by an artist whose name was lost for decades.
• Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church (High Hill) — 8.9 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.
• Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites — 14 mi
  A shared tomb on the Colorado River bluff for the men of the Dawson fight and the black bean lottery, beside the ruins of a German stonemason's spring-fed brewery.

More markers nearby

• Etta Moten Barnett — steps away
• Town of Weimar — steps away
• Saint Michael's Catholic Church — 0.3 mi
• John Pettit Borden — 0.8 mi