Site of the Town of Nashville

Address County utm_east

Milam

724067


utm_zone utm_north

Gause 14 3412410
Latitude Longitude
N 30.82582° W -96.65303°

Location Repair Condition

5 mi. north of Gause on US 79 at roadside pull-off on west side of highway has 16 bullet holes

Marker Text

Surveyed in the fall of 1835 as the capital of Robertson's colony. Named for

Nashville, Tennessee where Sterling C. Robertson and many of his colonists

had formerly lived. Seat of justice Milam municipality, 1836; Milam County,

1837. First home in Texas of George C. Childress, chairman of the committee

who drafted the Texas Declaration of Independence.

Comments

The DAR Centennial Park marker is also located at this site.