Fisher County

Samuel Rhoads Fisher was born in Pennsylvania on December 31, 1794, the Handbook of Texas says, and came to Texas in 1830, settling at Matagorda, which he represented at the Convention of 1836. Soon after the Senate confirmed him as navy secretary in October 1836, President Houston accused him of abuse of office, insubordination, smuggling and the unjust capture of the English brig Eliza Russell. After a long and bitter trial the Senate removed him on November 28, 1837, by six votes to five, without finding dishonorable conduct. He died in 1839 and was buried at Matagorda.

What the plaque says

Sites of old Indian trail from Mexico to settlements on Texas frontier. In this region in 1856, Colonel Robert E. Lee, then commanding the famed U.S. Second Cavalry (and later General-in-Chief of the Confederate Army), campaigned against the Indians. County formed from Young and Bexar territories. Created 1876. Settled in 1877. Organized 1886. Named for Samuel Rhoads Fisher (1794-1839), a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Secretary of the Navy in the Republic of Texas, 1836. Roby, county seat, named for landowners. (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pioneer Museum — 19 mi
  Nolan County's settlement story in a dozen rooms of Judge R. A. Ragland's 1906 house in Sweetwater, a town that started as a dugout store for buffalo hunters and a post office called Blue Goose.
• National WASP WWII Museum — 20 mi
  Hangar 1 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, where the women of the WASP trained to fly every aircraft in the Army's arsenal in World War II, then waited thirty-three years to be called veterans.

More markers nearby

• Organization of Fisher County — steps away
• Roby — steps away
• Roby Cemetery — 1.2 mi
• Royston Townsite — 6.5 mi