Marker Inscription
Home and trading post stood six miles southeast of this marker.
Historical Marker
Bryant, Major
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About this site
Bryant, Major is a historical marker in Buckholts, Milam County, dedicated in 1936. It is one of 88 historical markers documented in Milam County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 151 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.9103, -97.1842 near Buckholts. The nearest cataloged historic site is Bryant Station (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Hope Lutheran Memorial Park, Bryant Station, and McFarland.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5331007940. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
This marker commemorates Major Benjamin F. Bryant, a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto and frontiersman who established an Indian trading post and the pioneer village of Bryant Station near present Buckholts in Milam County. Sam Houston appointed Bryant an Indian agent in 1842, and the settlement at the Little River crossing on early trail and stage routes had a U.S. post office from 1848 to 1874. The State of Texas erected a marker for the site in 1936.
Sources: hmdb.orgforttours.com
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