German and Czech immigrants moved to this area in the 1860s and 1870s and established small cotton farms. Their community, named Breslau after the Prussian city of Breslau, stood on the east side of the Lavaca River. In the 1870s Fritz Ladewig established a store and cotton gin, and in 1872 he donated land for a school. In 1887 the original school building was converted to a teacherage and a larger schoolhouse was erected. As Breslau prospered, a post office was established in 1880, and Henry Weller donated an acre for a school for African American residents, where a schoolhouse was built. After 1900 Breslau had stores, a blacksmith, a dance hall, a school, and Lutheran and Catholic churches. Private donations supported the school until 1910, when a seven-cent school tax was levied and additional classrooms were constructed. A teacherage was built in 1919, and in 1922 Wessel Buss sold three acres for the site of a modern school building. The African American school closed in 1955. The Breslau School served the community until June 1963, when it closed and was consolidated with Hallettsville schools.