Footprints of Fayette

These histories were written by members of the Fayette County Historical Commission. They first appeared in the weekly column, "Footprints of Fayette," which is published in the Fayette County Record, Banner Press, Flatonia Argus, Schulenburg Sticker, and Weimar Mercury newspapers. A new article will appear weekly.

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TITLE
AUTHOR
PUBLICATION DATE
Fayette Heritage Archives Staff
September 3, 2001
George Koudelka
August 19, 2001
The "Airdome"—A Unique Theatre Carolyn Heinsohn March 17, 2009
Gary McKee
March 11, 2001
Donna Green
April 7, 2002
Donna Green
May 12, 2002
Gary E. McKee
June 8 & 15, 2003
Cathy Chaloupka
April 8, 2001
Annie Webb Blanton Connie F. Sneed February 12, 2008
Blizzard of 1888 Kathy Carter January 25, 2009
The Bluff Community Carolyn Heinsohn July 29, 2008
Bones Back to La Grange Richard Tinsley June 10, 2008
The Bridge Valley Settlement Carolyn Heinsohn April 29, 2008
Robert Tecumtha Browne Connie F. Sneed Sep 1, 2009
Edward F. Janecka
June 9, 2002
Annette Ruckert
Sept 30 & Oct 7, 2001
Allen G. Hatley
May 18, 2003
A Letter from Burnham's Crossing Gary E. McKee August 5, 2008
John Caragee Donna Green November 17, 2009
Sandra Briones
January 5 & 12, 2003
Carmine Dramatic Club Connie F. Sneed May 12, 2009
The First Catholic Church in Fayette County Carolyn Heinsohn December 30, 2008
Cattle Dipping Andrea Weishuhn November 24, 2009
Unique Cemetery Art Lillie Mae Brightwell January 6, 2009
Census of Fayette County in 1887 Edward F. Janecka March 18, 2008
Lillie Mae Brightwell
March 2, 2003
Norman C. Krischke
March 30, 2003
Donna Green
November 3, 2002
Reverend Joseph Chromcik, the First Czech Priest in Texas Helen Trnovsky Mikus July 7, 2009
Civil War Letter Carolyn Heinsohn December 2, 2008
William Coltrin Donna Green May 26, 2009
Commencement Day 1858 Connie F. Sneed March 31, 2009
Extracts From the Fayette County Commissioner Court Minutes in the Republic of Texas Gary McKee May 6, 2008
Confession Letter Exonerates Man Who Served Prison Term In Texas Connie F. Sneed January 13, 2008
Cottonseed Flour – Schulenburg Oil Mill Connie F. Sneed May 5, 2009
The Journey of a School — The County Line Schoolhouse Helen Mikus November 25, 2008
Kathy Carter
November 25, 2001
William Vannoy Criswell Stacy N. Sneed October 14, 2008
Sandra Briones
May 11, 2003
Donna Green
March 25, 2001
Bettie Branch Davis Connie F. Sneed December 29, 2009
Nicholas Mosby Dawson Stacy N. Sneed February 17, 2009
FHMA files
February 23, 2003
Gary E. McKee
April 28 & May 5, 2002
William Mosby Eastland Connie F. Sneed February 10, 2009
Eblin's League As a Competitor for the State Capitol Edward F. Janecka March 2, 2001
Hugo Ehlers—Sorrow—Soldier is Lost Sherie Knape January 13, 2002
El Camino Real de Tejas Gets National Attention Gary E. McKee May 13, 2008
Ellinger Post Office Lillie Mae Brightwell January 27, 2002
Come to the Fair—Be a Blue Ribbon "Champion" There Billye Beth Baker April 8, 2008
Maria Faison Marie Watts April 21 & 28, 2009
Nathaniel W. Faison L. J. Calley April 14, 2009
How Fayette County Came To Be Larry K. Ripper August 5, 2001
Fayette County, A Century Ago Ann Lamer September 14, 2003

The First Year of Fayette County Commissioners Court In the Republic of Texas

Gary E. McKee
February 19, 2008
History of Fayetteville as of 1938 Irene Polansky August 10, 2003
Circus Day at Fayetteville Kathy Carter February 2, 2003
Cotton Gins in Fayetteville Irene Polansky October 7, 2008
Fayetteville Courthouse Cases, Late 19th Century Lillie Mae Brightwell April 1, 2008
Federal Agents Invade Fayetteville in 1918 Lillie Mae Brightwell January 20, 2009
[Fayetteville] Mayor Pleads Not Guilty Connie F. Sneed July 14, 2009
Fayetteville Fire Irene Polansky March 23, 2003
Fayetteville Post Office Lillie Mae Brightwell March 31 & April 7, 2002
Fayetteville's Water Tower Linda J. Dennis October 13, 2009
Leopold Fink, Killed in the Mexican War Sherie Knape November 3, 2009
First "Trains" Ever in Texas Stacy N. Sneed March 24, 2009
An Electric and Ice Plant for Flatonia Connie F. Sneet September 22, 2009
The Flatonia Fair, 1913 - 1936 Judy Pate December 9, 2008
The [Flatonia] Train Robbery Eugenia Reeves June 17, 2008
A Texas-Montana Romance [for one of the Flatonia Train Robbers] Connie F. Sneed March 10, 2009
The Flood in Texas [1869] Connie F. Sneed January 27, 2009
Flood of 1913 Edward F. Janecka July 28, 2002
Sonja Fojtek Helen T. Mikus September 9, 2001
Caleb Forshey Gary McKee April 22, 2001
Furniture Making in Fayette County Arnold Romberg October 6, 2002
German Festival Planned Connie F. Sneed October 6, 2009
German Settlers in Fayette County Bob Heinsohn March 9 & 16, 2003
Fredrich W. Grasmeyer Larry K. Ripper April 29, 2001
Thomas Green Katie Kulhanek March 3, 2009
My Name is Joe Griffin Gary McKee February 24, 2002
William Guehrs—Confederate Hero of Waldeck Harvey Meiners May 20 & 27, 2001
Daniel J. Gully, Buried at Sea Sherie Knape October 20, 2009
Judge Augustine Haidusek Sandra Briones July 27, 2003
Andrew Jackson Hamilton Stacy N. Sneed April 22, 2008
Halsted, Texas Carolyn Heinsohn May 20, 2008
Hang'n Sandra Briones October 27, 2009
Heintze Museum—La Grange, Texas Carolyn Meiners April 15, 2001
Higheasterjet—The Millionaire from La Grange Katie Kulhanek October 21, 2008
Benjamin F. Highsmith—Alamo Courier and Texas Ranger Connie F. Sneed December 15, 2009
Highway Beautification Annette Ruckert September 28, 2003
John Christopher Columbus Hill Gary McKee Dec 2, 9, & 16, 2001
Some Historical Markers in Fayette County Lillie Mae Brightwell October 19, 2003
The Hobo Norman C. Krischke July 21, 2002
[Hostyn] Texas Grotto Reproduces French Shrine of Miracles Connie F. Sneed September 29, 2009
Edward Louis Hruska Lillie Mae Brightwell January 26, 2003
Robert Hancock Hunter Mike Steinhauser July 22, 2008
Hurricane Carla Leaves Her Mark on La Grange Annette Ruckert April 27 & May 4, 2003
Fayette County Immigration Society Donna Green September 7, 2003
The Green Lantern Cafe Carolyn Heinsohn July 21, 2009
Indian Depredations Near La Grange Gary E. McKee October 28, 2008
Indian Raid! Judge Edward Janecka June 10, 2001
The Old Fayette County Jail Bob Heinsohn April 15, 2008
Jews Prominent in Fayette County History L. David Vogel August 12, 2008
First Lady [Lady Bird Johnson] Tours Historical Sites Connie F. Sneed June 9, 2009

John Rice Jones, Jr.

Ann Daves March 25, 2008
Dr. Charles J. Kaderka Helen Mikus July 8, 2001
The Story of Tabitha and Ira Killough Sherie Knape June 17, 2001
Kroll Pickle Factory Sherie Knape August 25, 2002
Ladies' Cemetery Association Sherie Knape February 16, 2003
(La) Fayette Gary E. McKee January 15 & 22, 2008
The Original La Grange Bruce D. Collins January 29, 2008
103 North Main Street, La Grange Victoria Collins September 23, 2008
114 South Main Street, La Grange Victoria Collins September 16, 2008
Old La Grange City Library Carolyn Meiners May 26, 2002
La Grange Gold Rush Company Fayette Heritage Archives Staff January 20, 2002
La Grange Jewish Cemetery Donna Green July 13, 2003
La Grange Live Oaks Carolyn Heinsohn May 27, 2008
La Grange Matress Factory Lillie Mae Brightwell November 11, 2008
La Grange Postal Masters Lillie Mae Brightwell October 13, 2002
Early Schools in La Grange Founded by Masons Carolyn Heinsohn May 13, 2008
La Grange, R.F.D. (The First Texas Rural Mail Route) Annette Ruckert July 20 & 27, 2003
The History of a Vacant Lot [in La Grange] Carolyn Heinsohn April 7, 2009
Queen City of the Colorado Valley [La Grange] Connie F. Sneed September 8, 2009
The Latins & the Prairie Blume Society Donna Green March 3, 2002
Lawlessness in Fayette County, 1867 Stacy N. Sneed November 18, 2008
First Lawman on the Colorado Allen G. Hatley February 17, 2002
Blue and Grey—Joseph & John Lidiak Judge Ed Janecka December 30, 2001
Life in Early Fayette County Carolyn Heinsohn February 2, 2010
Faith Healer: Henry Charles Loehr Gary E. McKee December 2002
Lyons, Texas Norman C. Krischke August 12, 2001
A Machine Gun for Fayette County Fayette Heritage Museum Archives January 19, 2003
An Early Fayette County Marriage Gary E. McKee August 19, 2008
Fayette County Medical Society Sherie Knape August 24, 2003
Medicine Men of Fayette County Sandra K. Briones October 5, 2003
Medicine Shows, Drive-Ins and Movie Theaters Lillie Mae Brightwell December 16, 2008
J. C. Melcher Connie F. Sneed November 4, 2008
Menefee County Edward F. Janecka October 12, 2003
Fayette County Meteorites and Tektites Carolyn Heinsohn July 1, 2008
Monument Hill Gary E. McKee September 2 & 9, 2008
Moore's Fort Carolyn Meiners May 12, 2002
Citizens of Mulberry Take Action Carolyn Heinsohn September 30, 2008
Father Michael Muldoon Ann Lamer April 6 & 13, 2003
Where, Oh Where Did the [Muldoon] Depot Go? (Part I) Carolyn Heinsohn January 5 & 12, 2010
Fayette County Music Societies/La Grange Handel Club Sherie Knape September 21, 2003
Celebrating a Natural Resource Donna Green September 16, 2001
Fayette's First Newspaper and Its Offspring Annette Ruckert July 22 & 29, 2001
The Murder of Constable Charles Hendrickson Null Allen G. Hatley June 16 & 23, 2002
Riding Into the Unknown: Orphan Trains Come to Fayette County Katie Kulhanek June 23 & 30, 2009
Henry P. Overbay—First Doctor in Southern Fayette County Norman C. Krischke May 25, 2003
The Pliska Aeroplane Carolyn Heinsohn March 4, 2008
Fayette County Poor House Donna Green April 20, 2003
Praha Norman C. Krischke November 10, 2002
Prohibition Kathy Carter August 27, 2001
Prolific Progenitors Carolyn Heinsohn February 5, 2008
The Pytlovany House Carolyn Heinsohn May 19, 2009
Mary Crownover Rabb Donna Green June 3, 2001
The Killing of Robert Ragsdale Norman C. Krischke unknown
Happy New Year—Railroad Donna Green March 17, 2002
Randolph School Kathy Carter August 11, 2002
John T. Rankin: Sheriff, U.S. Marshal, Fayette County Clerk and Accused Murderer  Ed Janecka July 28, Aug 4 & 11, 2009

My Name is Joel Robison

Richard Tinsley February 25, 2008
Joel Walter Robison Connie Sneed July 15, 2008
The Weikel Family and Roznov Lillie Mae Brightwell October 14 & 21, 2001
Flight of Fear 1836—The Runaway Scrape Kathy Carter November 18, 2001
Running the Rings Donna Green November 11, 2001
Martin Ruter Connie F. Sneed June 2, 2009
St. Paul's AME Church Donna Green August 18, 2002
H. P. Schaefer Memorial Observatory Florence Farek September 15, 2009
Schiege Cigar Factory Donna Green August 31, 2003
Birth of Schulenburg Norman C. Krischke April 1, 2001
125 Year Old News—Schulenburg Norman C. Krischke August 4, 2002
Schulenburg in 1877 Norman C. Krischke & Gary McKee September 23, 2001
Early Baseball in Schulenburg Norman C. Krischke May 13, 2001
Schulenburg Fire Department Florence Farek September 22 & 29, 2002
The La Grange Journal Visits Schulenburg in 1892 Gary E. McKee September 1 & 8, 2002
Enterprising Settlers - John & Michael Short L. J. Calley March 10, 2002
Side-wheelers on the Colorado Larry K. Ripper March 18, 2001
Julia Lee Sinks Annette Ruckert February 3 & 10, 2002
Sally Skull Sherie Knape October 28 & Nov 4, 2001
Rudolph B. Spacek—Fayetteville Solid Citizen Irene Polansky July 14, 2002
The Studemann-Duncan House Carolyn Heinsohn January 19, 2010
Swiss Alp Church Sherie Knape July 15, 2001
Swiss Alp Dance Hall Edward F. Janecka November 17 & 24, 2002
Swiss Alp Town Is A “Mystery” Stacy N. Sneed February 24, 2009
Waldine Tauch, Sculptress Donna Green April 21, 2002
Memories of "Teenville" Carolyn Heinsohn December 8, 2009
Tenant Farming: On the Halves, Thirds and Fourths Harvey Meiners July 7, 2002
The Tonkawa Gary E. McKee December 22, 2002
The Two Brothers Saloon Eugenia Reeves June 24, 2008
Two Strange Women Gary E. McKee November 10, 2009
Unfeminine Behavior Kathy Carter December 1, 2009
The Volunteer Aid Society Donna Green December 22, 2009
Peter Carl Johann Von Rosenberg—Veteran of Waterloo to Fayette County Pioneer Sherie Knape July 6, 2003
Bigfoot Wallace Norman C. Krischke September 15, 2002
Warda Post Office Lillie Mae Brightwell December 8 & 15, 2002
Willow Springs, a Community Known by Many Names Rox Ann Johnson February 3, 2009
Women's Suffrage Sherie Knape April 14, 2002
Celebration - War is Won Sherie Knape January 6, 2002
World War II - On the Home Front Noreen Stavinoha June 24 & July 1, 2001
Wright's Park Robert Moore and Gary E. McKee June 16, 2009
Where in the World Was Wursten? Carolyn Heinsohn July 8, 2008
Yankees in La Grange Gary E. McKee June 2, 2002
Yellow Fever Sherie Knape May 6, 2001
Letter on the Devastating Yellow Fever Epidemic in La Grange  Connie F. Sneed August 18, 2009
Young Family Stories Josephine White August 17, 2003