The Harrison and McCulloch Stage Line began running stagecoaches from the Texas coast to central Texas as early as 1848. Formed by brothers-in-law John S. Harrison and William McCulloch after they dissolved Harrison's partnership with Dr. Caleb S. Brown of Gonzales in 1850, it was part of a network of competing stage lines and Star Routes under contract with the United States Post Office to carry travelers and mail throughout central Texas. Star Routes 6285, 6154, and 6155 connected Indianola, Port Lavaca, and Galveston with New Braunfels and Austin. John S. Harrison also owned the Victoria Hotel in Victoria, where stage passengers stayed overnight on their way inland. In 1852 Harrison moved to Selma, became its first postmaster for two years, and lived in a house later listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 and declared a State Archeological Landmark in 2009. The Selma Stage Stop was one of the stops on Harrison and McCulloch's Star Route 6285 from Austin to San Antonio; in 1852 the trip took 18 hours, departing Austin at 3 am, following the Old Post Road and parts of El Camino Real de los Tejas across open prairie through Manchac Spring, San Marcos, Bonito, New Braunfels, and Selma, and reaching San Antonio at 9 pm. The Selma stage stop is a prime example of limecrete construction, which used wooden forms and slip, a mixture of sand and pebbles from the nearby Rio Cibolo, with wood shards and corncobs pressed into the drying material for added strength.