Site of the Town of Nashville

Nashville was surveyed in the fall of 1835 and was gone within thirty-three years. It kept the Milam County seat until the commissioners bought land for Cameron in 1846 and the records moved. The Houston and Texas Central reached nearby Hearne in 1868, the Nashville post office closed that same year, and the remaining residents had their reason to leave. In 1927 a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, with county money, bought seven acres of the site and deeded them to the state, and the Centennial markers came later.

What the plaque says

Site of the Town of Nashville Surveyed in the fall of 1835 as the capital of Robertson's colony. Named for Nashville, Tennessee where Sterling C. Robertson and many of his colonists had formerly lived. Seat of justice Milam municipality, 1836; Milam County, 1837. First home in Texas of George C. Childress, chairman of the committee who drafted the Texas Declaration of Independence.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Calvert — 11 mi
  A railroad cotton town of 1868 on State Highway 6 that claimed the largest cotton gin in the world and elected Black men to county and state office during Reconstruction.
• Milam County Courthouse and Jail — 19 mi
  Cameron's 1892 Renaissance Revival courthouse and the 1895 St. Louis-built jail beside it, now the county museum, are listed together on the National Register.
• George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — 24 mi
  The library of the forty-first president on the Texas A&M campus, opened in 1997, where George and Barbara Bush and their daughter Robin are buried in a family plot on the grounds.

More markers nearby

• The Town of Gause — 5.0 mi
• City of Hearne — 5.0 mi
• First Baptist Church of Hearne — 5.0 mi
• A Century of the Methodist Church — 5.0 mi