Historical Marker
Buchel Community and School
Historical marker location:
Cuero, Texas
( from Cuero, take US 183 north about 5 miles then go north west about 1 mile on CR)
Marker installed: 1986
Permanent settlers arrived in this area of Texas as early as 1839. A post office was established in 1842, two years after the first school opened near this site. In 1894, Cuero merchant and banker Otto Buchel (1849-1909) gave land at this site for a community school. The first schoolhouse constructed here was known as Oak View. When a new building was completed in 1921, it was named in honor of Buchel. Although the Buchel School closed in 1950, the 1921 schoolhouse remained in use as a community center.
Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986.