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Site of the Town of Nashville

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Gause, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 30° 49' 25.27065000012", -96° 39' 27.09429999984"
 
    Texas State
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     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.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Site of the Town of Nashville Historical Marker Location Map, Gause, Texas