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Kerr's Creek

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Gonzales, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 29° 30' 34.09772000004", -97° 25' 45.1362"
 
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     Commissioned to found a capital for colony of Green DeWitt, ex-Missouri state senator James Kerr settled here. He and six other men built homes on this stream--known ever since as Kerr's Creek. After a destructive Indian raid in 1826, the settlement was abandoned.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Kerr's Creek Historical Marker Location Map, Gonzales, Texas