Lindsey Springs

LINDSEY, WILLIAM F. (18011852). William F. Lindsey, surveyor and founder of San Marcos, was born on May 17, 1801 in Jefferson County, Georgia. He became a farmer and gold prospector and moved to Texas in 1836. While prospecting in Texas, Lindsey met Robert Trimble, and the two of them eventually became the surveyors of Galveston Island. The secretary of the treasury, under the authority of the Congress of the Republic of Texas , had the responsibility of selling individual lots of land. The treasury hired Lindsey and Trimble to survey the island, and they completed it in 1837.