Sword belonging to Antonio Gil Y'Barbo, founder of modern Nacogdoches, built a stone house sometime between 1788 and 1790 which later became known as the 'Old Stone Fort'. His sword was damaged in 1948 in a house fire. The scabbard is not original.
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