On February 5, 1847, seven or eight Penateka Comanches led by Chief Ketumusua first encountered an expedition of German immigrants led by John O. Meusebach at this site. The group of about forty settlers had left Fredericksburg on January 22 to explore the area between the Llano and Colorado rivers included in the Fisher-Miller land grant. The Society for the Protection of German Immigrants, known as the Adelsverein, had acquired colonization rights to the tract, and Meusebach, the society’s general agent, chose a diplomatic approach to interacting with the people already living there. Carrying a white flag, the Comanches approached the Germans’ camp and asked whether they intended to wage war. Meusebach answered that they had come in peace and presented gifts. After a consultation through an interpreter, Ketumusua invited the Germans to visit his village on the San Saba River. The parties shared a meal, and the Comanches escorted the Germans to their camp. This first meeting laid the groundwork for a successful peace council on March 1–2, 1847, a rare instance in American history in which native people and immigrant settlers negotiated a voluntary agreement for sharing territory. The Comanches honored their treaty with the Germans even while remaining in conflict with other settlers. Ketumusua later became the Principal Chief of the Southern Comanches, and Meusebach was elected to the Texas State Senate. Their first meeting became a significant exchange between two cultures that added to the intertwined history of the Texas Hill Country.