To get more complete architectural descriptions along with cited sources, visit the Texas Historic Sites Atlas, a feature of the Texas Historical Commission website: Dubina Historic District The following descriptions of the Dubina Historic District and the Simon Pytlovany House, with an emphasis on their history, are excerpted from its listing with the National Register. Haidusek, whose father, Valentine Haidusek, and Joseph Peter were the first settlers in that part of the country. Dubina is a Bohemian name, meaning in English "oak grove." The name was given to the place by Judge A. Dubina has a fine Catholic Church building and a hall for public meetings and entertainments. Joseph Peter is the proprietor of a large store and barroom, of a gin and of a blacksmith shop in Dubina. It lies on Hedden Creek and one mile from the Navidad Creek. The land is postoak and liveoak and black prairie. Lotto, 1902:ĭubina lies about fourteen miles south of La Grange in a rich, fertile country. As the first settlement in Texas to be founded entirely by Czech-Moravians, Dubina remains an important part of the state's regional and cultural history.įrom Fayette County, Her History and Her People by F. A 1909 storm and a 1912 fire caused extensive damage from which the town never recovered. By 1900 the farming community had erected a church building, mill, cotton gin, blacksmith shop, store, and post office. Text of historical marker erected on FM 1383 at Dubina in 1983:ĭubina, which derives its name from the Czech word for Oak Grove, was founded in 1856 by a group of Moravian immigrants, including the Marak Kahlich, Sramek, Peter, Holub, Muzny, and Haidusek families.
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