Historical Marker
Stagecoach Inn, 1856
Historical marker location:
Hochheim, Texas
( from Hochheim, take Highway 183 south about 1.7 miles go west about .2 mile PRIVATE)
Marker installed: 1964
Built by V. Hoch, a native German; of stone quarried nearby. An inn on Austin-Indianola Stagecoach Road.
Purchased by Valentine Bennet, 1899. Restored by his grandson, Ross Boothe, Jr. 1954.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1964.
Texas has been a major oil-producing state for over a century. The first big oil discovery in Texas was the Spindletop field near Beaumont in 1901, which set off a massive oil boom that transformed the state's economy and made Texas one of the wealthiest states in the country.