| Marker Number |
7992 |
| Atlas Number |
5331007992 |
| Marker Title |
Site of the Town of Nashville |
| Index Entry |
Nashville |
| Address |
|
| City |
Gause |
| County |
Milam |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
724067 |
| UTM Northing |
3412410 |
| Subject Codes |
land surveys, land companies, promotional towns; ghost towns |
| Marker Year |
1936 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
5 mi. north of Gause on US 79 at road side pull-off on west side of highway |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
1936 Texas Centennial |
| Marker Text |
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. |
