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Site of a Blockhouse

Location: US 183, 1.5 mi. S of FM 2243, at the entrance to the Blockhouse Creek Subdivision

Marker Text:

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.

(1936)

Photo by Jared Twing (2020)

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