Williamson County Historical Commission
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Beyersville,
also known as
Dacus
or Dacus Crossing.
Williamson County, Texas
| Beyersville,
community near Dacus Crossing and Dacus School. Dacus Cross—s
ing was mentioned in records soon after Civil War, the school by
1889, where church services were also held. Gustav (Gus) Beyer
settled there in 1886, established several businesses; post
office at Beyersville was established April 15, 1893, Gustav
Beyer, postmaster, succeeded by William Rummel (1898), changed
to Wilhelm Rummel a month later; Robert Stumhofer 0906); office
closed January 31, 1909. Businesses included stores of Beyer,
Rummel, Albert Frerichs, Stumhofer, J. T. Simcik's molasses
mill, 1908-1935; blacksmith shops of Albert Becker and Walter
Sipple; gins owned by Leopold Bachmayer, Charlie Bachmayer, Ben
Thonig; Albert Frerichs garage; Wagon Wheel tavern; Sons of
Hermann Lodge Hall used for dances and community activities. Name of school was changed from Dacus to Beyersville at least by 1897. A small oil field was developed on the Charlie Preusse farm about 1940. School consolidated with Taylor in 1950.14 by Clara Stearns Scarbrough, Land of Good Water: A Williamson County History (Georgetown, Texas: Williamson County Sun Publishers, 1973). BEYERSVILLE, TEXAS. Beyersville is on Farm Road 619 thirty-five miles northeast of Austin in east Williamson County. The area was first settled shortly after the Civil War and was originally known as Dacus or Dacus Crossing. Beyersville became the town's official name in 1893, when Gustav Beyer established a post office, which remained in operation until 1909. The Dacus school opened in 1889, adopted the name Beyersville in 1897, and was consolidated with the Taylor schools in 1950. In 1896 Beyersville had an estimated population of only fifteen, but soon grew to include several retail stores and gins, two blacksmith shops, a garage, a tavern, and a molasses mill. The Order of Sons of Hermann hall served as a center for community activities. Beyersville's population was estimated at 100 from 1933 to 1970. From 1970 to 2000 it remained around seventy-five. At some time the community was moved one mile south of its original site, to a location known earlier as Happy Hill. In 1986 Beyersville had two taverns, a diesel and equipment repair shop, and a Czech fraternal hall. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Clara Stearns Scarbrough, Land of Good Water: A Williamson County History (Georgetown, Texas: Williamson County Sun Publishers, 1973). |
Mager Cemetery -
by:
John Christeson
4/03/2010
1 mile south of Beyersville on the west side of FM 1466
Marker text
Mager Cemetery - Reinhold Mager (1863-1930), a native of Brandenburg, Germany, came to Texas and married Franziska Krueger (1868-1951), a native of the Dessau community in nearby Travis County, Texas. The Magers donated one acre of their 150 acres of land here in Williamson County for this cemetery and a school. The first known burial, that of Albert C. Mager, took place in 1900. Many of the tombstones bear inscriptions in German, and 14 mark the graves of infants. Burials in the cemetery ceased after the interment of Franziska Mager in 1951. The 55 known grave sites are testament to the area's 20th-century German heritage. (2000)
intermet list
by John Christeson
Also known as: Old Beyersville Cemetery
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Local sources told me that the post office was moved in about
1970 from the old Beyersville site on Wagon Wheel Road to
present day Beyersville. The buildings in the old
Beyersville site were gradually abandoned and fell into
ruins surrounded by weeds and saplings. The cemetery is now
abandoned and overgrown with weeds, saplings, vines,
creepers and ground cover, which had to be cut away to
photograph the gravestones. Two of the gravestones have
toppled over on their inscriptions. There may be other
gravestones hidden in the cemetery growth, which is enclosed
by cyclone fence about 100 or more feet long along one side
of a field.
The cemetery is along Brushy Creek with reeds from 10 to 12 feet tall along the rear of the cemetery. The river has flooded at times and may have caused some damage to the cemetery. Believed to be more burial then documented.
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