Historical Marker

Comanche Indian Treaty

Historical marker location:
FM 2732 off US 190 SW of San Saba, San Saba, Texas
( From San Saba, take 190 West about 3 mile, then go south on FM 2732 about 10 miles (marker is about .25 mile) north of New Hope Chapel and Cemetery.)
Marker installed: 1936

On this site a treaty of peace was agreed upon, March 1-2, 1847, between twenty Comanche chiefs and the German colonists represented by Otheried Hans Freiherr Von Meusebach (1812-1897), who became a citizen of Texas under the name of John O. Meusebach...this treaty was never broken.