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| The Sixth Legislature formed McCulloch County from the Bexar District in 1856 and named it in
honor of Benjamin McCulloch. In the late 1850s a few families came to the Lost Creek area and to the sites of present
Milburn and Camp San Saba, but the population remained too small for permanent organization of the county. In 1860
McCulloch County was attached to San Saba County for judicial purposes. Some officials were elected for McCulloch
County in the 1860s, and evidence suggests that the Voca and Lost Creek communities were the center of county affairs
during these years, but it was not until 1876 that all of the county offices were filled and a county seat was
chosen. McCulloch County was not organized in time to have a representative at the secession convention of 1861,
and its involvement in the Civil War was limited. Indians, not Yankees, presented the more immediate threat to
people who had settled there by the 1860s. Confederate volunteers from McCulloch and other frontier counties were
stationed at such outposts as Camp San Saba to protect settlers from Indians after federal troops withdrew from
the area in 1861. The greatest impact that the Civil War and Reconstruction had on the development of McCulloch
County was in providing incentive to families from other southern states to come west and start again.
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| Extensive settlement of McCulloch County began in the 1870s; most of the growth was from a dispersement
of people already living in Texas and the southern United States rather than from an increase in immigration from
other countries. The first census of the county, taken in 1870, listed the population as 173. Brady is the county
seat.
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