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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TEV_town-of-shelby-historical_Round-Top-TX.html
Named for 1822 settler David Shelby, this town grew up at the mill of German pioneer Otto Von Roeder. The Ohlendorfs, Vogelsangs, Rothermels, and Vanderwerths arrived in 1845; other Germans came in ensuing years. The post office opened 1846 with S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L9Y_nassau-plantation_Round-Top-TX.html
One-half mile south to site of
Nassau Plantation
An extensive tract of land purchased in 1843 for colonization by German emigrants. Named for Duke Adolf of Nassau, protector of the emigration society, it was once one of the show places of Te…
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Built by William S. Townsend about 1834. Of cedar timbers — one large room, fireplace and loft for sleeping quarters.
Purchased in 1848 by Samuel K. Lewis; enlarged to present form.
Became known as "Sam Lewis' Stopping Place" for many …
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South Carolina native Samuel K. Lewis married Marshall Ann Moore in 1830 and they settled on his Mississippi plantation. In 1838 the Lewis family was drawn to Texas. Originally a surveyor, Lewis served Austin County in the Republic of Texas House …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CVW_oldenburg_Round-Top-TX.html
The land in this area was included in a Mexican land grant awarded to Nathaniel Townsend in 1838. Portions of the grant were sold to a succession of different people over the years, and in 1885 August Heintze and Gus Steenken, both natives of Olde…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15NE_wandke-house_Round-Top-TX.html
Johann Traugott Wandke (1808-1870) immigrated from Prussia to nearby La Grange with his wife Christiane and two daughters, Karoline and Christiane, in 1855. About 1860 Johann and Christiane came to Round Top to live in the home of their daughter K…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXK5_round-top-community_Round-Top-TX.html
Home of the Townsends, Hills and McH. Windurn, veterans of San Jacinto; Joel W. Robison, one of Santa Anna's captors; John Rice Jones, first postmaster general, Republic of Texas; and John C.C. Hill, boy captive of Mier Expedition and adopted by G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIUN_early-texas-hotels-and-inns_Round-Top-TX.html
Two miles east, at Winedale, is the Old "Sam Lewis Stopping Place" of the 1850s—a typical early Texas inn, now a University of Texas Research Center. Built 1834, as a settler's 2-room log cabin of hand-hewn cedar; then enlarged twice and (wi…