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 . . . — — Map (db m129401) HM
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, . . . — — Map (db m129321) HM
William J. Gause (1829-1914), born in Alabama, moved to Texas in 1849, to the Brazos region in 1856, and to this locality in 1872. Buying lumber in Montgomery, he gave his friend Dan Fowler half in return for hauling it here. The two . . . — — Map (db m129322) HM
