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Nashville (also known as Nashville-on-the-Brazos) was a community, now a ghost town, on the southeastern bank of the Brazos River in present-day Milam County, Texas, United States. [1] The town was surveyed in the fall of 1835, with Sterling C. Robertson as its founder. [2] It was named in honor of Nashville, Tennessee, Robertson's
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Brazos Valley (/ ˈ b r æ z ə s / ⓘ BRAZ-əs) is a region of the U.S. state of Texas comprising the following 7 counties in Central Texas: Brazos, Burleson, and Robertson (which collectively comprise the Bryan–College Station metropolitan area), and the neighboring counties of Grimes, Leon, Madison, and Washington. [1]
In 1830, Sterling C. Robertson of the Texas Association, along with Alexander Thomson, Jr. [18] began recruiting settlers for the Texas colonization. The new Law of April 6, 1830, however, nullified the colonization contract with the Texas Association. Stephen F. Austin was able to get an exemption for his colony and that of Green DeWitt. [19]
Brazos County (/ ˈ b r æ z ə s / ⓘ BRAZ-əs) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 233,849. [1] [2] The county seat is Bryan. [3]Along with Brazoria County, the county is named for the Brazos River, which forms its western border.
Tehuacana Creek (/ t ə ˈ w ɑː k ə n ə /, [1] Spanish pronunciation:) is a creek in Texas that is a tributary of the Brazos River. Tehuacana Creek rises three miles south of Penelope in southern Hill County (at 31°50' N, 96°54' W) and runs twenty-eight miles southwest to its mouth on the Brazos River, one mile east of Waco (31°31' N, 97°02' W).
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A report from the U.S. Army, describes the Brazos river as "one of the principal rivers in Texas. Its length is about 800 miles, and its watershed embraces about 36,000 square miles." "Unlike any other Texas river, the Brazos flows directly into the Gulf of Mexico without the intervention of a bay." [3]