Site of the Town of Nashville
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Deafdillos
N 30° 49.547 W 096° 39.173
14R E 724506 N 3412651
Marker about this ghost town
Waymark Code: WM41BD
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/22/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member ggmorton
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Marker Number: 7992

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.

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