Gausebr/Milam County, Texasbr/30 49.543' N 96 39.180' Wbr/Directions: Start at the intersection of SH-79 and CR-356. Go 1 mile east on SH-79. The marker is on the left (north) side of the road.br/ br/Text: Surveyed in the fall of 1835 as the capital of Robertson's colony. Named for Nashville, Tennessee where Sterling C. Robertson and many of his colonists had formerly lived. Seat of justice Milam Municipality, 1836; Milam County, 1837. First home in Texas of George C. Childress, chairman of the committee who drafted the Texas Declaration of Independence.