Historical Marker
Kerr's Creek
Historical marker location:
Gonzales, Texas
( Near E city limits on FM 146 at Kerr Creek, Gonzales)
Marker installed: 1966
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.