 It was about halfway between Indianola and the lower portions of the Fisher-Miller land grant.The first settlers forded the Guadalupe River on Good Friday, March 21, 1845, near the present-day Faust Street bridge.As the spring of 1845 progressed, the settlers built the "Zinkenburg", a fort named for Adelsverein civil engineer Nicolaus Zink, divided the land, and began building homes and planting crops.