The Dr. Eli T. Merriman Log Cabin

The Dr. Eli T. Merriman Log Cabin. . The Cabin , Dr. Eli Merriman's one-pen, hand-hewn log cabin home was built in 1846 on Fort Street (now Hopkins) about a block from the courthouse square (where the Goodyear building is currently located). At the time, it was the second home in San Marcos. The Merriman Cabin was moved from its original location in 1960 by Paul Rogers, who made the structure part of the Texana Village at Aquarena Springs. Later, Texas State University gifted the Merriman Cabin, one of San Marcos' oldest and most historically significant structures, to the Heritage Association under a contractual agreement providing for "relocation to a public site and preservation as an historic structure." The Heritage Association restored and relocated the cabin to Veramendi Plaza during the San Marcos Sesquicentennial Celebration in 2001., Early San Marcos , Dr. Merriman opened his first medical practice in Texas sometime after 1838. On October 22, 1846, in San Marcos, he enlisted in Captain Henry E. McCulloch's ranger company. He was appointed Postmaster of San Marcos in 1847. He also served as county tax collector-assessor. Merriman, along with Gen. Edward Burleson and William Lindsey bought land where the town of San Marcos now stands and laid out the townsite; they sold the first lots in 1851. , The Merrimans , Eli Todd Merriman was born in 1815 in Bristol Connecticut, and graduated from Yale University in 1833. He received his medical degree at Pennsylvania and Vermont Academy of Medicine. He married Jenette Bartholomew, also of Bristol, in 1833. Together they had 4 sons and 3 daughters. Their youngest daughter died at the age of one in 1851. Shortly after her death Jenette returned to Connecticut and divorced Eli. , In July of 1851, Eli moved to Brownsville and married Elizabeth Fusselman, they had an additional 4 sons. Merriman died in Corpus Christi of yellow fever in 1867. He is buried in Bayview Cemetery.