Nashville, Texas

Nashville (also known as Nashville-on-the-Brazos) was a community, now a ghost town, on the southeastern bank of the Brazos River in present-day Milam County, Texas, United States.

The rangers constructed Fort Milam at the falls of the Brazos and a second at the three forks of the Little River.

It began to slowly decline after 1846, when the state legislature moved the county seat to Cameron.

In 1868, the arrival of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad at nearby Hearne provided the remaining residents with the incentive to move.

[1][4] A chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, with additional funds from Milam County, bought seven acres of the former Nashville site and deeded it to the state of Texas in 1927.