Site of First Anglo-American Settlement in Lamar County
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Legend tells of French and Spanish forts before the families of J. W. G. Pierson, Luke and John Roberts, and the Mason brothers settled here in 1820. Within a year, in the absence of the men, women, children and slaves were victims of an Indian raid. Five of the men pursued, but outnumbered, they too were killed.
Be silent, friend! Here heroes died to blaze a trail for other men. Erected by the State of Texas 1936
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