Name: 1825, Kerr's Creek
Address: Near City Limits on FM 146 at Kerr Creek, Gonzales
Price range: $0.00 - $100.00

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Near City Limits on FM 146 at Kerr Creek, Gonzales, Texas

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Commissioned to found a capital for colony of Green DeWitt, ex-Missouri state senator James Kerr settled here. He and six other men built homes on this stream–known ever since as Kerr’s Creek. After a destructive Indian raid in 1826, the settlement was abandoned.

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