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NASHVILLE,
TEXAS
AKA Nashville-on-the-BrazosFirst
Milam County Seat
Texas
Ghost Town
Milam
County, Central
Texas S
SE Bank of the Brazos River
On Highways 79 and 190
5 Miles W of Hearne
5
Miles NE of Gause
Population:
0
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Texas Centennial Markers
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, December 2008 |
History in a Pecan
Shell
Sterling C. Robertson, namesake of neighboring Robertson County,
founded the town here in 1835, making it the center of Robertson’s Colony. After
the Texas Revolution it was one of several sites considered to become new capital
of the Republic.
For nine years, beginning in 1837, Nashville served as
the Milam County seat, but in 1846 Cameron took
that title. Nashville may have continued on its own, but with the arrival of the
Houston and Texas Central Railroad at Hearne in
1868, the thinning population all but abandoned the site, closing the town’s post
office that same year.
The Daughters of the American Revolution, with additional
funds furnished from Milam County, bought part of the former site, deeding it
to the state of Texas in 1927. Nashville was remembered during the Texas
Centennial with the markers shown above. A cemetery at the site is shown on
the TxDoT Milam County map. |
DAR
Centennial Park marker
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, December 2008 |
A
missing marker in Nashville
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, December 2008 | |
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