​Swedish Log Cabin

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Additional Plate: An example of free enterprise that built America.

Marker No: 14405

Medallion & Plate

Texas Historic Landmark

Geographic: 30.268934, -97.772919

Marker Text:  Built about 1838 on "Govalle" ("good grazing land in Swedish"). Ranch of S.M. Swenson, settler who encouraged migration of his countrymen to Texas as a copy of cabins built 1638 by Swedish colonists in Delaware.
          Home, 1848, of newly arrived Gustaf Palm family; a social center for early immigrants.
             Preserved through efforts of Louis Palm, Carl T. Widen. Texas Swedish Pioneer Association and others. (1966)

Location: Zilker Botanical Gardens, Zilker Park. 2220 Barton Springs Road, Austin