Details for Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5051013256
Data
| Marker Number | 13256 |
| Atlas Number | 5051013256 |
| Marker Title | Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church |
| Index Entry | Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church |
| Address | |
| City | Caldwell |
| County | Burleson |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 725380 |
| UTM Northing | 3365223 |
| Subject Codes | Czech immigrants/immigration; Roman Catholic denomination; churches |
| Marker Year | 2004 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | in the Frenstat community; from Caldwell, travel 7 mi. S on US 36, then W on FM 976 to FM 2774 and S 0.8 mi. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | In 1884, Catholic settlers from Czechoslavakia first arrived in this area. They named their settlement Frenstat for the community they had left, Frenstat Rod Radhost, Moravia. By 1887, the Rev. Joseph Chromcik regularly visited Frenstat. That year, Adolf Polansky sold land to the Galveston Diocese for school, church and cemetery purposes. Members met in the schoolhouse until building a sanctuary in 1889. During the next few decades they formed men's and women's service organizations. Since that time, the congregation, now part of the Austin Diocese, has grown in membership and facilities, which include a grotto of the Virgin Mary of Lourdes. (2005) |