​McLennan's Bluff

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Marker No: ​Once known as "Sugar Loaf", this bluff  overlooking Pond Creek was a landmark to early settlers in area.  In 1835, Neil McLennan, a native Scotland, built  his home here, on land that had been granted to him as a member of Sterling Clack Robertson's Colony. The present town of Rosebud is located on part of Neil McLennan's land grant. McLennan's brother Laughlin settled his family about one mile north of this site. During the spring of 1836, Indians killed Laughlin McLennan, his wife his mother, and captured three of his sons. As a result, the Neil McLennan family spent much of their ten years in Falls County in nearby  town of Nashville, a haven for settlers that had been begun by Sterling Robertson. In 1839 while a member of Capt. George Erath's scouting expedition, Neil McLennan first saw the territory that was to become McLennan County. He return there in 1846, built a home and lived there until his death in 1867. As part of the earliest Anglo settlement in this part of Texas,  the McLennan family helped open the frontier for later immigrants. Their part in the area's history has been remembered with the naming of this bluff and the neighboring county. (1986)

Marker No: 3303

Aluminum 27 x  42 Subject Marker

Geographic: 31.067558, -97.006241

Location: From Rosebud, take FM 1963 west about 1.5 miles, then go north on CR 347 about .5 mile