Texas Historical Marker #15079
Buckholts SPJST Lodge Hall. In 1879, Central Texas Czechs organized Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas (SPJST), a fraternal society that promoted social activities and insurance benefits for its members. SPJST members from Cameron, Marak and Buckholts established Lodge No. 15 in October 1907. The official name of the lodge was Svornost Jihu, which translates as "Southern Unity," although that name has been seldom used. Josep Slovacek and other members drew plans and built the first meeting hall, dedicated on this site on July 4, 1911 but destroyed by a 1915 storm. Temple architect Josef Tudlacka designed the next building, which theives set on fire in March 1836 to distract citizens while they attempted to rob the bank. Head Carpenters Aley Horstman and Jeff Reeder built the present building in the summer on 1936. The distinctive frame meeting and dance hall features an octagonal plan, hinged windows and central vent for air circulation, roof arches and hardwood floors. The site also includes barbecue pits dug into the ground. To nonmembers, the Buckholts SPJST Lodge Hall represents social functions. Dances, barbecues, receptions fundraisers, commercial entertainment and social clubs continue to this day. Live broadcasts by Taylor radio station KTAE in the 1950s made the hall and Buckholts known to a wider audience. Noted country, polka and western swing musicians including Jimmy Heap, Johnny Horton, Webb Pierce, Bob Wills and Vrazels' Polka Band have played this venue. The Vrazel family also managed the hall from 1957 to 1971. As a fraternal lodge, social center and dance hall, the site has been a Central Texas landmark for generations. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark-2008 #15079
600 E. Hwy 36, Buckholts, TX, United States
Texas Historical Marker #07939
Bryant Station. Pioneer village of Milam County established as an Indian trading post by Major Benjamin F. Bryant, frontiersman who had commanded a company in the Battle of San Jacinto. Appointed Indian Agent in 1842 by Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas. Little River Crossing on trail and stage routes. U. S. Post Office, 1848-1874 #7939
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Texas Historical Marker #07940
Site of Major Bryant's Home. Home and trading post stood six miles southeast of this marker. #7940
?, Buckholts, TX, United States
Texas Historical Marker #07978
Hope Lutheran Church. Founded in 1890, this congregation began with twelve charter members led by German missionary Julius Schroeder. Early worship services were held in homes and in a local school building. The Rev. H. F. Daude was called to serve the church in 1891, and in 1901 the first sanctuary was erected. It was replaced by a second structure in 1925. Some worship services were conducted in the German language until 1949. A new sanctuary was erected in 1975. The oldest church in Buckholts, Hope Lutheran serves a predominantly German and Czech membership. #7978
?, Buckholts, TX, United States
Texas Historical Marker #15219
Lewis Family Cemetery This family burial ground has roots in Sterling C. Robertston's colonies of the 1830s. Thomas Curry, born in 1771 in South Carolina, married Satsay (Satsa) Vann, a member of the Cherokee Indian tribe and daughter of a tribal leader. They had nine children, and following Satsa's death, Thomas and several family members, including son David and his wife Jane (Phillips), joined a group of colonists settling in Texas in 1834. Thomas was accepted as a settler in the Nashville Colony, and his one league grant of land stretched from south of Little River to Elm Creek, including the land on which the Lewis Family Cemetery is sited. After Thomas died in 1841, David and Jane Curry moved from Robertson County, where their four children were born, to Milam County. In 1847, the Currys moved to the Thomas Curry land grant. Daughter Anne Elizabeth married Squire William Michael Lewis, and they were prominent in the development of the communities of Corinth, Buckholts and Cameron. Squire was the first Justice of the Peace in Corinth and a charter member of the Masonic Lodge in Cameron, and helped build the Milam County Courthouse. He also served in the Confederacy's Fourth Texas Mounted Volunteers during the Civil War, participating in campaigns in Louisiana and New Mexico. Squire Lewis died in 1867 and was buried beneath a large oak tree on the family ranch, establishing the Lewis Family Cemetery. More than two dozen people, including seventeen family members, are buried here. In 1877, a typhoid epidemic caused the deaths of Elizabeth and Tapley Dewberry and Elizabeth Hutchins; they and other neighbors were also buried here. The majority of the graves in this historic graveyard are from before 1900. Historic Texas Cemetery-2007 #15219
?, Buckholts, TX, United States
Texas Historical Marker #13493
Buckholts Brethren Church. As early as 1848, Bohemian and Moravian immigrants of the Unity of the Brethren faith arrived in Texas. The Protestant denomination began with Czech reformer John (Jan) Hus, and when Buckholts residents held their first Brethren services in 1894, they used the Czech language. The Rev. Adolph Chlumsky led the first services for the group, which in 1907 formally organized the Czech Moravian Church. Members built a wooden sanctuary at this site in 1913 and used it until dedicating a new structure in 1951, around which time the church began holding services in English. In 1959, the congregation changed its name to Buckholts Brethren Church. It continues to serve as a community focal point. (2006) #13493
606 N 4th St, Buckholts, TX, United States
Texas Historical Marker #08003
Sharp Presbyterian Church. This church traces its history to 1872, when the Mt. Herman Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded. It was divided into the Davilla and Leachville congregations in 1893. The Leachville church was renamed Sharp in 1902, the same year this structure was built. The vernacular church building, exhibiting influences of the Italianate style of architecture, features a truncated tower, window hoods, and horizontal milled siding. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1988 #8003
13054 N FM 487, Buckholts, TX, United States