Major Israel M. Nunez

A few families were already living in log cabins on a grant held by Justa Flores in 1860. In 1879 a settlement called Millville was founded nearby, and in 1882 the stage station and post office moved there. The German settlers combined sheep raising with cattle and experimented with fruit trees, and the Stonewall area became a major source of peaches. Andreas Lindig built the first limekiln in Gillespie County at Stonewall, and from him other settlers learned to make lime. The town had an estimated 200 people in 1925, 245 from 1974 to 1990 and 469 in 2000.

What the plaque says

Major Israel M. Nunez (1841-1906) Civil War veteran and stage line operator who in 1870 founded Stonewall, naming it for Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson. Major Nunez, who lived 2 miles south of town and had a family of 9 children, donated land in 1886 for Stonewall School No. 18. (1971)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site — 2.2 mi
  A state park on the Pedernales opposite the LBJ Ranch, with a working Texas-German farm kept as it was around the First World War and the permit desk for the ranch tour.
• Luckenbach — 7.0 mi
  A store, saloon and dance hall on Grape Creek that a humorist bought in 1971, declared a free state of mind, and turned into a pilgrimage for Texas music.
• Fort Martin Scott — 11 mi
  An army post of 1848 on Barons Creek beside the German town, where soldiers kept the peace of a Comanche trade and paid the merchants in hard cash.
• National Museum of the Pacific War — 12 mi
  A museum of the war in the Pacific in Chester Nimitz's hometown, dedicated at his request to the two million who served with him, with a garden given by Japan.

More markers nearby

• Lyndon Baines Johnson — steps away
• Texas Ranger General E. Kirby Smith, C.S.A. — 3.7 mi
• Engel Family — 6.8 mi
• Jakob (Jacob) Brodbeck — 7.5 mi