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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/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/HMGPX_slave-burial-ground-in-old-round-rock-cemetery_Round-Rock-TX.html
Near the gravesite of outlaw Sam Bass, one-half acre of Old Round Rock Cemetery was set aside for slave burials. Enclosed by cedar posts and barbed wire, sites are marked head and foot with large limestone rocks. Some rocks are hand-grooved with n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGPT_round-rock-cemetery_Round-Rock-TX.html
Established in the early 1850s in what is now known as Old Round Rock; this cemetery is the burial ground of many area pioneers and outstanding Round Rock citizens. The oldest legible tombstone, which marks the burial site of 11-year-old Angeline …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGK4_the-round-rock_Round-Rock-TX.html
A guide for Indians and early settlers, this table-shaped stone in the middle of Brushy Creek once marked an important low-water wagon crossing. Hundered-year-old wheel ruts are still visible in the creek bottom. The rocky stream bed also provided…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUH_barker-house_Round-Rock-TX.html
E. B. and Mary Harvey Barker bought this house of locally quarried limestone in May 1873. The Barkers, who resided on a farm at Rice's Crossing (20 mi. E), lived here during the winter season so that their eight children could attend school in Rou…
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