In the 1870s and 1880s, a considerable number of German-speaking immigrants settled in northwestern Lavaca County. Among them was George Witting, a wealthy commission merchant from Columbus, Texas, who became a large landowner there. In September 1880 he donated an acre of land to Peter Pundt, Gerhard Boening, and Fritz Gehrles, trustees of the German-English non-sectarian school association, for the construction of a school. That year a single-room wood-frame building measuring 20 by 40 feet, with a small storeroom in the back, was built at a cost of $540 and named for Witting. By 1890, growing enrollment led the district to drill a water well and build a new three-room schoolhouse with a long porch, a windmill, and a cistern house. Before 1919, it was supported entirely by tuition of $2.00 per student per term. The schoolhouse also served the community as a place for public meetings, gatherings, and social events, and the local Evangelical Lutheran congregation used it for more than 40 years as a temporary church for Sunday services and Bible study groups. In 1969, the Lavaca County School Board closed it and consolidated it with two other schools. It was one of the oldest rural schools in Lavaca County and one of the last to close, ending 89 years of service as a focal point of rural education in northwestern Lavaca County.