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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/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/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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8A_site-of-stony-point-school_Round-Rock-TX.html
Stony Point School was established in Williamson County by 1891. Children living in the rural area attended the school, which served students from grades one through eight. Most of the students were sons and daughters of families that emigrated fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH87_olson-house_Round-Rock-TX.html
Swedish immigrant Johanna Olson (1835-1914) purchased this property in 1907 after the returned to the Round Rock area upon the death of her husband, Johannes, in 1894. Local contractor A.S. Robertson built this house for her in 1908, and it remain…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGPS_otto-reinke-building_Round-Rock-TX.html
Erected 1879, three years after Round Rock expansion began at railroad's arrival. Some successive tenants included stores, physician, restaurants. After it was gutted by fire in 1963, architect Martin S. Kermacy and wife, Evelyn, built a modern…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGND_sam-bass-death-site_Round-Rock-TX.html
An uneducated Indiana orphan who drifted to Texas as a youth, Sam Bass won fame racing his swift "Denton Mare", gambling, and robbing trains. A rich haul in Nebraska was followed by months of reckless spending. Bass liked to shower gold on people …
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