Weimar Began With a Railroad and Half the Town Land

Weimar became a townsite in 1873 as the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio rail line arrived. D. W. Jackson donated half the land for the town. The new community took the name of Weimar, Germany, placing a European name beside a Texas rail corridor. The post office also opened in 1873, and Weimar incorporated in 1875. By 1887, cotton supported a busy trade in western Colorado County. The town had many stores and two newspapers, enough daily commerce to give the rail stop a civic life of its own.

An opera house built around 1880 stood about 150 yards south of the later historical marker. The THC record places it among the early opera houses between Houston and San Antonio. That detail puts entertainment beside cotton and freight in the town's opening decade.

The marker remains in front of the post office on U.S. 90. It tells a compact railroad bargain: Jackson supplied half the town land, the line supplied movement, and Weimar quickly added a post office, stores, newspapers, and a stage.