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Round Top Community was home to the Townsends, Hills, and McH. Winburn, veterans of San Jacinto; Joel W. Robison, one of Santa Anna's captors; John Rice Jones, first postmaster general of the Republic of Texas; and John C.C. Hill, a boy captive of the Mier Expedition who was adopted by General Santa Anna. It was also a center of German culture and crafts in the 19th century, represented by Nassau Plantation, the art of Mathias and Rudolph Melchior, Rev. Adam Neuthard's School, the stone masonry of Carl S. Bauer, a Lutheran Church with Wantke's handmade organ, and S.K. Lewis' Stage Coach Inn.
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