On This Site a Treaty of Peace

The Fisher-Miller grant, between the Llano and Colorado rivers, lay in Comanche (Numunuu) hunting grounds, and the grant required the land to be at least partly settled and surveyed by the fall of 1847. A mounted party of Germans, Mexicans and American surveyors left Fredericksburg on January 22, 1847, and Meusebach joined it two days later, despite a warning from Governor James Pinckney Henderson. The geologist Ferdinand von Roemer wrote an account of the expedition. The treaty was ratified at Fredericksburg two months later and opened more than 3 million acres to settlement.

What the plaque says

On this site a treaty of peace was agreed upon, March 1-2, 1847, between twenty Comanche chiefs and the German colonists represented by Otfried Hans, Freiherr von Meusebach (1812-1897), who became a citizen of Texas under the name of John O. Meusebach * * This treaty was never broken. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Colorado Bend State Park — 27 mi
  Old ranch country on the Colorado above Lake Buchanan, where a spring-fed creek drops 70 feet over fern-covered travertine at Gorman Falls.

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• John Duncan's Fort — 8.1 mi
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