Merriman Cabin

The historic Merriman Cabin was built  in 1846 by Dr. Eli T. Merriman (1815-1867), a Yale graduate and 1838 Texas settler. Merriman was one of three San Marcos town site owners and first physician in the area.

When Dr. Eli Merriman built his one pen log home along
the southern bank of the San Marcos River, he probably
had no idea it would be moved twice in the next 150
years.

It is the second oldest home in San Marcos, originally near town square. The home is built of hand-hewn timber.

Texas State University gifted the Merriman Cabin, one of San Marcos' oldest and most historically significant structures, to the Heritage Association under a contractual agreement providing for "relocation to a public site and preservation as an historic
structure."

The restoration and relocation of the Merriman cabin was one of several projects of the San Marcos  Sesquicentennial Celebration in 2001.