Heritage House Museum, formerly the Bohls House.
William and Catherine Pfluger Bohls family, 1852. (Pflugerville Digital History Project)
George Heinrich Pfluger, son of Henry, often referred to as the “Father of Pflugerville.” (Pflugerville Digital History Project)
Dornhoefer Store, ca. 1940s. (Pflugerville Digital History Project)
Children play on Wilbarger St. near school, ca. 1907 (Pflugerville Digital History Project)
Plfugerville train depot, date unknown. (Pflugerville Digital History Project)
Henry Pfluger brought his family from Germany to Texas in 1849 to escape the Prussian War. A rich man in Germany, Pfluger lost nearly all his property during the war. After living for a time with his brother-in-law John Liese on a farm east of Austin, in 1853 Pfluger paid Liese $960 for 960 acres along Brushy Creek north of the state’s capital city. Pflugerville wouldn’t begin to add more residents until after the Civil War, when churches and a school were built. But it was the advent of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad that sparked rapid growth, which continued throughout the 20th century.
Pflugerville’s Heritage House Museum interprets much of the town’s history – a town that owes its discovery, and name, to an early German-Texan.
Heritage House Museum
- Hours: First Sunday of each month 1-4 p.m., Tuesdays 3-7 p.m. March - October..
- Admission: None
- 901 Old Austin Hutto Road, Pflugerville, TX
- 512-990-6375
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