DAR Centennial Park - Gause, TX, USA
N 30° 49.548 W 096° 39.180
14R E 724495 N 3412653
Marker is on U.S. 79 located in the Daughters of the American Revolution Centennial Park, a roadside pull-out just west of the Brazos River. This is a limestone marker with the DAR insignia in the top center.
Waymark Code: WM184N8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/29/2023
Views: 2
NASHVILLE-ON-THE-BRAZOS, TEXAS.Nashville was on the southwest bank of the Brazos River two miles below the mouth of Little River and five miles northeast of Gause in what is now Milam County. Sterling C. Robertson founded the town in 1835 and named it in honor of his birthplace, Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville was headquarters for Robertson's colony in the early 1830s. Immediately after the Texas Revolution, Nashville was considered by the Texas Congress as a possible site for the capital of the Republic of Texas. The town served as county seat of Milam County from 1837 to 1846, but after the state legislature made Cameron the Milam county seat in 1846, Nashville began to decline. Construction of the Houston and Texas Central Railway at nearby Hearne in 1868 provided the remaining residents with the incentive to move. The post office at Nashville was discontinued in 1868. In 1927 a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, aided by Milam County, bought seven acres of the Nashville site and deeded the land to the state for a memorial park.
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DAR Chapter: Texas Society Daughters of the American Revolution
Date Placed: 01/01/1991
Inscription:
DAR Centennial Park
In 1936 the Sarah McCalla
Chapter DAR of Cameron
created a park
(about 3/4 mile upriver)
at the site of Old Nashville
to commemorate the
Texas State Centennial
The red rock DAR monument
to the left was in that park
which is now inaccessible
Sterling C. Robertson
who was buried in the
Old Nashville Cemetery
was moved to the Texas State
Cemetery in Austin in 1935
This park commemorates the
centennial of the National
Society Daughters of the
American Revolution
1890 - 1990
Erected by the Texas Society DAR
1991
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