Fisher–Miller Land Grant

A granite monument located near Lookout Mountain in Burnet County summarizes the history and importance of the Fisher-Miller Land Grant and was designated as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1964, Marker number 9438.

[2] On February 8, 1842, Henry Francis Fisher,[3] Joseph Baker[4] and Burchard Miller,[5] representing the San Saba Colonization Company, petitioned for a land grant from the Republic of Texas.

On June 7, 1842, Henry Francis Fisher and Burchard Miller received a colonization land grant to settle 1,000 immigrant families of German, Dutch, Swiss, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian ancestry.

When Fisher and Burchard Miller sold the grant to the Adelsverein on June 26, 1844, they were aware of the dangers of settling in Comancheria, but did not inform the Verein.

[10][11] Darmstadt Society of Forty founders Hermann Spiess and Ferdinand Ludwig Herff were approached in Wiesbaden by Adelsverein Vice President and Executive Secretary-Business Director Count Carl Frederick Christian of Castell-Castell,[12] who made a deal with them to colonize two hundred families on the Fisher–Miller Land Grant territory in Texas.