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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QQ_round-rock_Round-Rock-TX.html
Permanent settlement began in this area in the late 1830s. By 1848, former Austin Mayor Jacob Harrell moved here, selling town lots near the Stagecoach Road crossing at Brushy Creek. A post office named "Brushy Creek" opened in 1851 in T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B8M_round-rock-volunteer-fire-department_Round-Rock-TX.html
The Hose and Hand Pump Company was formed in 1884 as Round Rock's first organized fire department. Money for equipment was raised through donations, picnics, dances, box suppers, and other fund drives. The first building constructed for Round Rock…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B8L_harrell-cemetery_Round-Rock-TX.html
Jacob M. and Mary McCutcheon Harrell came to Texas from Tennessee with Robertson's Nashville colony in 1833. Jacob's brother and sister-in-law James G. and Catherine Harrell and other family members soon followed. Both brothers served in the Texas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3U_education-in-round-rock_Round-Rock-TX.html
Soon after Williamson County was founded in 1848, pioneer settler Jacob M. Harrell, a blacksmith, built a log schoolhouse for use by his neighbors. Believed to be the first school in the county, it was located at Moss' Spring on Lake Creek (2 mi. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3Q_the-pioneer-builders_Round-Rock-TX.html
In memory ofThe Pioneer BuildersGreenwood Masonic Institute, 1867-1881, one quarter mile west and Round Rock Institute, one half mile south, 1881-1891, under auspices Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1881-1887, and the Southern Presbyterian Church,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3N_trinity-lutheran-college_Round-Rock-TX.html
Founded by the Augustana Lutheran Synod, in 1904. Synod representatives, seeking a location, selected Round Rock because of an offer of a well, 14 city lots, and freight concessions on building materials hauled by International & Great Northern Ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3F_the-double-file-trail_Round-Rock-TX.html
As the Delaware Indians moved from their home in the "Redlands" of East Texas in 1828 to near present Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. They laid out this trace. It was named Double File Trail because two horsemen could ride side by side. The first settlement…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3D_kenneys-fort_Round-Rock-TX.html
1/2 mile South to the site of Kenney's Fort First settlement in Williamson County. Erected as a home by Dr. Thomas Kenney and Joseph Barnhart in the spring of 1839. Served as a place of defense during Indian raids. Rendezvous of the Santa Fe Exped…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSPM_william-m-owen-house-complex_Round-Rock-TX.html
The earliest structure in this complex is the one-story stone building, constructed about 1853. It originally housed a mercantile store and the first permanent post office for Round Rock, both operated by Thomas C. Oatts, the town's first postmast…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSGR_a-j-and-carolina-anderson-house_Round-Rock-TX.html
This house was built in 1908-09 for the family of Swedish immigrant Anders Johan Anderson (1858-1929) just after the death of his first wife, Edla Maria (1859-1906). After its completion, Anderson and his two daughters moved into the house from th…
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