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Brief History of Milam County
Organized in: 1836
County Seat: Cameron
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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"
(Handbook of Texas Online).
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.
"At that time the boundaries of the county were roughly the same as those of the colony granted to Leftwich, comprising one-sixth of the land area of Texas. In addition to the present Milam County, the counties of Bell, Bosque, Burleson, Coryell, Erath, Falls, Hamilton, Hood, Jones, McLennan, Robertson, Shackelford, Somervell, Stephens, and Williamson were eventually carved out of the original Milam County. Brazos, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Comanche, Eastland, Haskell, Hill, Johnson, Lampasas, Lee, Limestone, Mills, Palo Pinto, Parker, Stonewall, Throckmorton, and Young counties also received land from Milam County. By 1850, with the exception of a small area between Williamson and Bell counties, Milam County had been reduced to its present size" (Handbook of Texas Online).
Compiled by Clarissa
Loyd, 10 Apr 2007.
Source: Handbook
of Texas Online, Milam County, 10 Apr 2009.
TXGenWeb County of the Month Award
TXGenWeb has initiated a program to recognize the efforts
of County
Coordinators who provide outstanding resources and assistance to county
visitors. This program is The Mike
Basham Memorial TXGenWeb
County of the Month Award. To see the Texas County
Coordinators
Memorial Page, please click
here.
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