Home of Orville Thomas Tyler

The Handbook of Texas calls Orville Thomas Tyler an early settler and legislator. Born in Massachusetts in 1810, he sailed to Texas in 1834, kept a store in Houston and ran cattle in Austin County. When Coryell County organized in 1854 he became its chief justice, and people called him Judge though he never practiced law. In 1862 he won a seat in the Texas House, where he chaired the committee on privileges and elections. He moved to Salado in 1864. The stone dates the house to 1857, seven years before that move.

What the plaque says

Home of Orville Thomas Tyler 1810 . . . 1886 Pioneer Texan . County Judge . Member of the Legislature . President of the board of trustees of Salado College. Built in 1857 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 15 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

• Kate Crawford and Zachary Clay Taylor — steps away
• Davis Mill — steps away
• Home of Wellborn Barton — steps away
• Salado Creek — steps away