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Preserving
History
Photo Courtesy of Pat Spackey
Dignitaries and
descendants in front of the Nat Hart Davis Museum and
new Lake Creek Settlement Marker as they are seated behind the Twin Sisters
Cannon The historic marker was dedicated on Feb. 25 in Montgomery
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A Texas
Historical Commission Marker recording
the history of the Lake Creek Settlement, the earliest Anglo-American
settlement in Montgomery County, was unveiled on Feb. 25 at the Nat
Hart Davis Museum and
Pioneer Complex in Montgomery.
Photo Courtesy of Pat Spackey
The new Lake Creek Settlement Historic Marker in front of the Nat Davis Museum
in Montgomery
The Lake Creek Settlement was a
settlement in Stephen
F. Austin's Second Colony located
between the West Fork of the San Jacinto River and the stream called Lake Creek.
In 1837, the town of Montgomery was founded in the middle of the Lake Creek
Settlement. Many descendants of the Lake Creek Settlement were on hand to
celebrate, including Kameron
Searle and
his family and Pat Spackey and family, who are descendants of W.W.
Shepperd, the founder of the
town of Montgomery.
Larry
Foerster, chair of the Montgomery
County Historical Commission thanked
Kameron Searle for his tireless efforts of 10 years of research and introduced
the Marker dedication Committee
Chair, Sharon
Russell of
the Montgomery County Historical Commission.
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Photo Courtesy of Pat Spackey
From Left, Marisa and Kameron Searle and Pat Spackey, descendants of W.W.
Shepperd, founder of the town of Montgomery with Will Metcalf, Texas House of
Representative District 16, who presented Kameron Searle with a Proclamation on
Feb. 25.
The Lake Creek Settlement had been forgotten by Texas Historians and Kameron's
research culminated in this marker which was dedicated in a ceremony that
included more than 150 in attendance.
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Photo Courtesy of Pat Spackey
Texas Army re-enactors do a gun salute at the unveiling of the Lake Creek
Settlement Historic Marker Feb. 25.
Greetings, resolutions and proclamations
were brought by Will Metcalf, Texas
House of Representatives, District
16; Luine Hancock, District
Co-ordinator for Senator
Robert Nichols District 3 Montgomery Office;
a letter from Lt. Gov. Dan
Patrick and
a proclamation from Gov. Greg
Abbott.
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