Home of Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson

The plaque lists Robertson's titles; the Handbook fills them in. The son of empresario Sterling C. Robertson, he learned Spanish in San Antonio as a boy, clerked in his father's colony land office, served as acting postmaster general of the Republic in 1839 and 1840, and read law at night while clerking in a store, earning his license in 1845. He signed the Texas secession ordinance in 1861. In 1859 he offered land for Salado College, and the town grew around it. The house is on private property.

What the plaque says

Home of Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson This house was built 1856-1860 by Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson 1820 . . . 1879 Texas pioneer, patriot, soldier and jurist, and one of the founders of Salado College. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 16 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.
• Williamson County Courthouse — 23 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 — 25 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.

More markers nearby

• Mary Elizabeth Carpenter, Birthplace of White House Aide — steps away
• Main Street Bridges — 0.3 mi
• Salado — 0.3 mi
• Salado Creek — 0.3 mi