Texas Historical Marker

Site of a Block House

Leander · Williamson County · placed 1936

Native History

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Williamson County, Texas

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Built by Texas Rangers under Captain John J. Tumlinson in 1836. Destroyed by Indians in 1837.

This was the first white man's post in Williamson County.

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