From the Annals of the Saints Go Marching In  –  In 1845, the first group of Mormon settlers to come to Texas arrived in Grayson County.  The group of dissident Mormons was led by Lyman Wight.  They spent the winter at an abandoned fort near Preston, and then moved on to Austin by June of 1846. They remained there until 1847, at which time the established their own community near Fredericksburg which they called Zodiac. There Wight implemented what he term the “common stock principle” – a strict form of communal living.  Zodiac attracted a number of Mormon dissenters.  However, in 1849, Wight was excommunicated by the Mormons in Utah for failure to follow Latter Day Saint doctrine and insubordination to LDS authority. A flood on the Pedernales River destroyed Zodiac in 1851.  There is nothing left of the site today.