Milam County, Texas
Gause has 6 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Milam County. The marker list includes records dating to 1936. Common marker themes include courthouse and civic history, churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, railroad, trail, and transportation history. Use this page to preview the markers, then open RoadHistorical on your drive to see nearby stops on the map, listen to narration, and save the places you want to visit.
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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…
View on map ↗William J. Gause (1829-1914), born in Alabama, moved to Texas in 1849, to the Brazos region in 1856, and to this locality in 1872. Buying lumber in Montgomery, he gave his friend Dan Fowler half in return for hauling it…
View on map ↗Historic Texas Cemetery - 2005 (HTC medallion only)
View on map ↗This burial ground, which extends along Pin Oak Creek, has served the rural Pin Oak Settlement, as well as the surrounding gause, hanover and liberty communities. Most of the area settlers, the earliest of whom were…
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View on map ↗It is believed that Methodist worship services in Gause occurred sporadically at first and by 1875 more regularly in the William J. Gause home. By 1877 services were held in the first Gause schoolhouse. Town namesake…
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