Site of the Town of Nashville
Gause, Milam County, Texas
Marker Inscription
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.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Surveyed in the fall of 1835 as the capital of Sterling C. Robertson's colony, Nashville, Texas, took its name from Nashville, Tennessee, home of many of its settlers. It served as an early seat of justice for the Milam municipality and county and was the first Texas home of George C. Childress, who chaired the committee that drafted the Texas Declaration of Independence. The town has since vanished from the map.
Why it matters
This lost townsite marks a seedbed of the Texas Revolution, home to the man who penned the colony's declaration of independence.
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Related people
- · Sterling C. Robertson
- · George C. Childress
Related events
- · Texas Declaration of Independence
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