Robert Price

Round Mountain, where Price is buried, grew around Joseph Bird's log house of 1854. The post office of 1857 was the second in Blanco County, and the town became a stage stop on the mail route between Austin and Fredericksburg. In 1871 residents chartered an academy that at one time had 200 students, and the town's elevation earned it a name as a health resort. It had 400 people by 1896 but declined after 1900, and in 1931 its school was consolidated with Johnson City's. The Round Mountain Stagecoach Inn and Stable of 1874 is in the National Register.

What the plaque says

Robert Price Detailed to guard the baggage at Harrisburg, April 21, 1836. Born August 2, 1811, died August 17, 1900.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pedernales Falls State Park — 11 mi
  The Pedernales stepping down over layered limestone east of Johnson City, a river that can turn from a placid stream to a torrent in minutes.
• Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park — 12 mi
  The Johnson City district of the national park: the Victorian house where Lyndon Johnson grew up, and the stone barns his grandfather built in the Johnson Settlement.
• Longhorn Cavern State Park — 17 mi
  A cave carved by an underground river in the Hill Country, cleared of mud by hand in the 1930s and reached down 52 stone steps on a guided tour.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 20 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.

More markers nearby

• Joseph Bird — 0.7 mi
• Home County of Pioneer Leader Joseph Wilson Baines — 4.2 mi
• Charles Haynes — 6.6 mi
• Captain Jesse Burnam — 6.6 mi