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In 1825, Robert Leftwich, representative of the Texas Association of
Nashville, Tennessee, was able to receive a land grant to colonize
the Milam County area from Mexico. The boundaries for this land
grant "followed the Navasota River, turned southwest along the San
Antonio road to the divide between the Brazos and the Colorado
rivers, then northwest to the Comanche Trail, and east back to the
Navasota" |
In 1827, Sterling Robertson took over the colonization effort but
the area was not progressing and the land grant was revoked in 1830.
Sam Houston and his business partner, Samuel May Williams, tried to
get the land grant transferred to them from the Mexican government
in 1831, but Mexico did not like Houston. In 1834, Sterling
Robertson took back control of the land grant and the area started
to grow with individuals coming to the Milam County area.
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At the time of the colonization the area (colony) was known
as Municipality of Viesca to the Mexican government. In 1835, it
was renamed the Municipality of Milam by the legislative body of the
Provisional Government of Texas in honor of Benjamin Rush Milam. The
area was not known as Milam County until the first Congress of the
Republic of Texas, in which the municipality was named. |
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Buckholts |
Milano |
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Cameron |
Rockdale |
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Gause (unincorporated) |
Thorndale |
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