Marker Inscription
Ethnic Heritage - Black, Politics/Government
Historic Place
Ploeger-Kerr-White House
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About this site
Ploeger-Kerr-White House is a historic place in Bastrop, Bastrop County, dedicated in 1978. It is one of 81 historic places documented in Bastrop County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 296 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.1082, -97.3111 near Bastrop. The nearest cataloged historic site is Kerr Community Center (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Kerr, Beverly and Lula, House, House at 1308 Fayette St., and MKT Depot (Gone).
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2078003346. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Ploeger-Kerr-White House at 806 Marion Street in Bastrop is a one-story frame dwelling built soon after 1863 by Carl Ludwig Ploeger, a Prussian immigrant, following his marriage. It was later owned by Robert Kerr, remembered as the first Black legislator from Bastrop and one of the few African Americans to hold elective office in the years just after Reconstruction. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.
Sources: texasindependencetrail.comen.wikipedia.orgen.wikipedia.org
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