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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. (1936) 

Marker No: 7992

Gray Granite 1936 Centennial Marker

Geographic: 30.823660,-96.657524

Location: 5 miles north of Gause on US 79 at road side pull-off on west side of highway