Daniel Harrison

The plaque puts Harrison's blacksmith shop on the road to Fort Gates, and the Handbook of Texas describes that post. Captain William R. Montgomery stockaded it on the Leon River on October 26, 1849, to protect settlers, in Tonkawa country that Waco, Comanche and Lipan Apache bands also visited. It had eighteen buildings. Lieutenant George Pickett, later a Confederate general, served there in 1850 and 1851. The army left in March 1852, the first post of its line to close. The Handbook calls Corn Hill a stage stop on the Georgetown road to Fort Gates.

What the plaque says

Daniel Harrison Tennessee native Daniel Harrison (1816-1870) migrated to Texas in 1835. He served with Texan forces during the Texas Revolution, and as a volunteer for the Republic's militia. He was in the 1839 Battle of the Neches. In 1840, Harrison married Nancy Robbins and soon moved his family to present-day Williamson County and what would be the Corn Hill community. He served in Central Texas' 27th Brigade during the Civil War. As a blacksmith in Corn Hill, a stage stop on the route from Austin to Fort Gates, his work was crucial to traffic on the military road. Later, Harrison also farmed and raised horses and cattle. Originally buried in Anderson Cemetery, Daniel and Nancy were later reinterred in Corn Hill Cemetery. (2007)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Williamson County Courthouse — 12 mi
  The fifth Williamson County courthouse, a Beaux Arts building by C. H. Page, rises over a Georgetown square of more than 50 Victorian-era buildings.
• Inner Space Cavern — 14 mi
  A Georgetown cave found in 1963 when highway engineers drilled test holes, holding Pleistocene fossils and 72-degree rooms that visitors reach by an artificial tunnel.
• The Round Rock — 21 mi
  A table-shaped stone in Brushy Creek gave Round Rock its name in 1854; the Chisholm Trail crossed the creek near it, and Old Town stayed behind when the railroad pulled the town east.
• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 25 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.

More markers nearby

• Cornhill Cemetery — steps away
• Corn Hill Community — 0.7 mi
• Jarrell — 2.7 mi
• Community of Theon — 2.7 mi