Historical Marker
Robert B. Evans Home
Historical marker location:
7830 Evans Rd., Selma, Texas
( Evans Rd., 4 mi of Fm 1604 (or Anderson Loop), San Antonio)
Marker installed: 1969
Built in 1882 of stone from Buda (45 Mi NE). On east side is an 1865 smokehouse. Evans (1821-1905) left his native Tennessee in 1847; went to California in 1849, where he panned enough gold to buy this land, 1865. He and his wife Rebeca (Murchison) reared nine children here.