Weimar, Texas

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Music in Weimar

Songs About Weimar

Hymne Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (Auch Weimars Volkslied)
Thuringi
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Weimars Volkslied (Moderne Version)
Thuringi
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Weimer, Texas
Pay the Devil
77%
"Weimer, Texas"

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Weimar

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Weimar.

US Route 90 9 songs Interstate 10 36 songs Texas Colorado River 6 songs Texas State Highway 71 2 songs Guadalupe River 17 songs Brazos River 42 songs

History of Weimar

Engineering a Town on the Prairie RoadyGoat

Weimar exists because a landowner bet on a railroad before the railroad got here. In 1873 the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway was pushing across the coastal prairie toward San Antonio, hunting the straightest, flattest line it could find — every curve and every grade costs fuel and costs money — and spacing its depots by how far a steam locomotive could run before it needed water and fuel. A man named D. W. Jackson owned the ground here, and Thomas W. Peirce of the railroad authorized him to start selling lots on it in anticipation of the line. The place was simply called Jackson at first. Then it got renamed, and not for anything Texan: Peirce had traveled to Weimar, Germany, liked it, and the name came back across the ocean and stuck to a prairie townsite. The lots were laid out on a grid squared to the tracks rather than to the compass. Within ten years a few hundred people had become more than a thousand. Those rails still slicing through town are the reason there is a town to slice through.

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A notable event in Weimar's history was the murder of Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic by serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz on May 2, 1999. Their parsonage was adjacent to the train tracks.

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Veterans Park (Strickland Field) in Weimar is a landmark, being the first lighted baseball field between San Antonio and Houston when it was built in 1948. It remains a state-of-the-art baseball stadium, having hosted a Babe Ruth League World Series Tournament in 2005.

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The Railroad Killer — Weimar, Texas, 1999

1999

Weimar is a railroad town. That is why it is here at all — the line came through and the town arranged itself around it. That same geography is why a killer found it. In the spring of nineteen ninety-nine, Norman Sirnic, a United Church of Christ pastor everybody called Skip, and his wife Karen were beaten to death in the parsonage behind their church, a house that sat close to the tracks. He was…

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Barnett, Etta Moten

1901

Etta Moten Barnett, singer, actress, activist, and philanthropist, was born on November 5, 1901, in Weimar, Texas. She was the only daughter of African Methodist Episcopal minister Freeman F. Moten and dressmaker Ida Mae (Norman) Moten. Etta Moten became active at an early age in the congregation that her father pastored. At ten years old she began teaching Sunday school and singing in the church choir. Following high school Moten married Curtis Brooks and lived in Oklahoma, but after six years and three children, they divorced. She and her three daughters then relocated to Kansas where they lived with her parents, so she could attend the University of Kansas while majoring in voice and drama. Moten was discovered at her senior recital and invited to join the Eva Jessye Choir in New York, which she did following graduation in 1931. In New York Moten starred in such productions as Fast and Furious (1931) and Zombie (1932). She then moved to Los Angeles, where she made her first onscreen appearance in Busby Berkeley's 1933 film Gold Diggers of 1933 . Moten, who played a widowed housewife and sang "My Forgotten Man" in the film, is credited for helping break the Hollywood stereotype of Black women playing roles as domestic servants. In what would be her most famous screen appearance, she played a Brazilian singer in Flying Down To Rio (1933), which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers . Moten sang the Oscar-nominated song "The Carioca," wearing fruit in her hair (long before Carmen Miranda adopted a similar headdress). On January 31, 1934, at the invitation of President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Moten made history when she became the first African-American woman to perform at the White House. Moten eventually relocated to New York City and would be featured in such popular Broadway shows as Sugar Hill and Lysistrata. From 1942 to 1945, she starred in the wildly popular Broadway production of Porgy and Bess. In fact, George Gershwin is believed to have written the character of "Bess" with Moten in mind. She followed Broadway with a number of performances, including concerts with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and participated in music festivals throughout the world, including her last performance at a Danish concert in 1952. In 1934 Moten married Claude Barnett, founder of the Negro Associated Press. Together they traveled during the late 1950s as members of a U.S. delegation to Ghana and other African nations. Barnett represented the U.S. Government on missions to more than ten African nations and was given honorary degrees from many universities and colleges, including Spelman College and the University of Illinois. Following her husband's death in 1967, Barnett became more involved in local affairs. She was a national trustee of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and of the African American Institute. She also was a member of the women's boards of the Lyric Opera, the Field Museum, the University of Chicago, and the Art Institute. In 1979 Barnett was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. She was named one of Texas's 100 most influential women of the twentieth century by the Texas Women's Chamber of Commerce. She died on January 2, 2004, at the age of 102 of pancreatic cancer at Chicago Mercy Hospital.

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Strickland Field: The First Lights Between San Antonio and Houston

1948

Weimar built its ballpark the way small towns used to build things: the veterans did it themselves. Strickland Field went up at Veterans Memorial Park in nineteen forty-eight, and when the lights came on it was the first lighted baseball field between San Antonio and Houston. That mattered more than it sounds. Lights meant a farm town could play after the work was done, and for a while everybody i…

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Osage, Old

1820

Site of 1820 trading post of Jesse Burnam. His ferry on the Colorado River helped Gen. Sam Houston reach San Jacinto, 1836. To cut off Santa Anna, Houston then burned post and ferry. Town started in 1850s was named for Osage orange trees. In 1861, Civil War recruiting center. Furnished most of Co. A, 5th Texas Cav., Green's Brigade. This park, on land deeded by Edward Austin for school and churches, includes cemetery and graves of many Civil War veterans. Was also burial site, Wm. B. Scates, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

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McLeary, Kindred

1928

Kindred McLeary, artist, the son of Dr. Samuel and Mamie (Kindred) McLeary, was born in Weimar, Texas, on December 3, 1901. He graduated from Allen Academy in Bryan with the highest grade average ever made by a student at that school. He studied architecture at the University of Texas and graduated in 1927. At different times he also studied at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts near Paris and at the American Academy in Rome. While teaching at the University of Texas in 1928, McLeary entered one of his paintings, Cotton , in a national art exhibit sponsored by the late Mrs. Henry Drought in the Witte Memorial Museum , San Antonio. The picture showed a black woman reclining in a field of cotton with several men standing around her, one of them strumming a guitar. Some artists and ministers attacked the picture as obscene, but Eleanor R. Onderdonk , art curator of the museum,defended it and kept it hanging throughout the juried exhibit. The controversy dominated the front pages of San Antonio newspapers for several days. McLeary began teaching architecture at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh in the fall of 1928 and remained there until his death on May 29, 1949, in a fall from the roof of the studio he had built himself near Confluence, Pennsylvania. He had become well known as a muralist in the northeastern United States. America the Mighty (1941), or "Defense of Human Freedoms" as McLeary called it, his best-known mural, is a twelve-by-fifty-foot depiction of war scenes. It is in the Twenty-first Street lobby of the United States Department of State building in Washington and was covered from 1954 to 1977 because its theme was considered inappropriate to the site, which had housed the War Department when the mural was painted. McLeary painted murals in Pittsburgh, in the Madison Avenue Post Office in New York City, in the Somerset County, Pennsylvania, library, and elsewhere. At the time of his death he had dozens of paintings that had not been framed. They were collected by his sister, and many of them were hung in her home.

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Borden, John Pettit

1812

(December 30, 1812 - November 12, 1890) Born in New York. Moved to Texas 1829. Settled in Stephen F. Austin's second colony in 1832. In Texas Revolution, fought at Battle of San Jacinto in 1836. Helped lay out town of Houston same year. At 24 became first Commissioner of Texas General Land Office. Later practiced law and served as county judge. He was a surveyor before moving, in 1866, to Harvey's Creek (4 mi. E). Married twice. Had 9 children by second wife Mary (Hatch).

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Things to Do in Weimar

quirky 15.1 mi away
The Chicken Ranch

A brothel outside La Grange operated continuously from the 1840s until Houston television reporter Marvin Zindler exposed it in 1973 -- one of the…
food 10.2 mi away
Hruska's Bakery & Store

Family-run Czech bakery on Highway 71 in Ellinger since 1912. Kolaches, klobasniky, and a roadside-store side hustle for travelers between Houston and Austin.

Sports in Weimar

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 2A · Softball · 2023

Weimar Wildcats — 2023 UIL 2A Softball State Champions

Most recent: 2023 2A

Weimar High School, nestled in the heart of Texas, proudly represents Class 2A in UIL softball. The Wildcats have established a reputation for competitive play on the diamond, reflecting the dedication found in this close-knit community. Their pursuit of excellence has brought significant recognition to Weimar.

The pinnacle of their achievements in softball came with a state championship title. The Weimar Wildcats secured the 2A State Championship in 2023, a memorable season for the school and its supporters. This accomplishment stands as a testament to their hard work and spirit.

State titles
2023
Most recent
2023
Class
2A
The moment

The 2023 2A State Championship was a defining moment for Weimar High School softball.

Sources: Wikipedia · UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)

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