Gillespie County

Historical marker location:

101 W. Main St., Fredericksburg, Texas

( Gillespie County Courthouse grounds, northeast side facing US 87 (Main St.))

Marker installed: 1936

The trails of roving Indians crossed these hills settled by German pioneers in 1846. A group of Mormons settled at Zodiac in 1847.

Created February 23, 1848. Organized June 5, 1848.

Named for Richard Addison Gillespie, a Texan from 1837, a defender of the Texas frontier, and captain in the Mexican War who fell at Monterrey, September 22, 1846.

Fredericksburg, the county seat.

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