Milam County Historical Commission
Milam County, Texas
Milam County, Texas
Site of the Town of Nashville
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DAR Centennial Park
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DAR Centennial Park
Site of the Town of Nashville
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.
US79 5.0 miles East of Gause, TX
DAR CENTENNIAL PARK
In 1936 The Sarah McCalla Chapter DAR of Cameron created a park (about 3/4 mile upriver) to commemorate the Texas State Centennial.
The red rock DAR Monument to the left was in that park which is now inaccessible.
Sterling C. Robertson who was buried in the Old Nashville Cemetery was moved to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin in 1935.
This Park commemorates the Centennial of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 1890-1990.
Erected by the Texas Society DAR - 1991
In 1936 The Sarah McCalla Chapter DAR of Cameron created a park (about 3/4 mile upriver) to commemorate the Texas State Centennial.
The red rock DAR Monument to the left was in that park which is now inaccessible.
Sterling C. Robertson who was buried in the Old Nashville Cemetery was moved to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin in 1935.
This Park commemorates the Centennial of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 1890-1990.
Erected by the Texas Society DAR - 1991
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Markers as seen from US 79
Rubble is all that remains of 160-year-old building stones (behind overturned pillar in foreground) after Old Nashville vandalism.
Photo credit: Mike Brown, Rockdale Reporter
History lost in act of vandalism
Vandals may have accomplished what 164 years of Texas weather could not.
The final authentic pieces of Old Nashville on the Brazos, a long-forgotten town that was once considered for the capital of the Republic of Texas, were heavily damaged at an unknown time last month at a tiny roadside park on US 79 just west of the Brazos River bridge. The park contains two granite markers commemorating the town, which flourished from 1837 to 1845, and until last month also held a triangular structure constructed with the last remaining stones salvaged from the actual buildings of Old Nashville.
That marker was toppled by a vandal, or vandals, reducing most of those century-and-a-half stones to rubble.
The granite monument erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1936 was also toppled. That monument did not break and is expected to
be restored.
The jury is still out on whether any of the original building stones can be salvaged, local historian Joy Graham told The Reporter.
The vandalism incident is being investigated by the Milam County Sheriff’s Department.
Old Nashville was once the headquarters of Sterling C. Robertson’s original Texas colony.
Rockdale Reporter, March 11, 2010
Vandals may have accomplished what 164 years of Texas weather could not.
The final authentic pieces of Old Nashville on the Brazos, a long-forgotten town that was once considered for the capital of the Republic of Texas, were heavily damaged at an unknown time last month at a tiny roadside park on US 79 just west of the Brazos River bridge. The park contains two granite markers commemorating the town, which flourished from 1837 to 1845, and until last month also held a triangular structure constructed with the last remaining stones salvaged from the actual buildings of Old Nashville.
That marker was toppled by a vandal, or vandals, reducing most of those century-and-a-half stones to rubble.
The granite monument erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1936 was also toppled. That monument did not break and is expected to
be restored.
The jury is still out on whether any of the original building stones can be salvaged, local historian Joy Graham told The Reporter.
The vandalism incident is being investigated by the Milam County Sheriff’s Department.
Old Nashville was once the headquarters of Sterling C. Robertson’s original Texas colony.
Rockdale Reporter, March 11, 2010