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Robert A. Kraft, a Paige musician and actor, performs at Neighbor’s Kitchen and Yard in Bastrop. He is the founder and director of the Bastrop Live Music Foundation nonprofit, which hosts concerts.
Bastrop (/ ˈ b æ s t r ə p,-t r ɒ p /) is a city and the county seat of Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The population was 9,688 according to the 2020 census . [ 6 ] It is located about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Austin and is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bastrop County, Texas. There are five districts, including one National Historic Landmark district, and 96 individual properties listed on the National Register in the county.
The Kerr Community Center, originally called Kerr Hall, is a community center located in Bastrop, Texas, United States. The hall was a gathering spot for the African-American community of Bastrop during the time of racial segregation in the United States. The structure was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978. [2]
The Bastrop Advertiser is a weekly newspaper covering Bastrop, Texas, and wider Bastrop County.Founded in 1853, [2] it is one of the oldest continually operating weeklies in the state of Texas; and along with papers like the Elgin Courier, is considered the newspaper of record for some of the small rural towns in the Greater Austin region.
Bastrop County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Bastrop. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 97,216. [2] [3] Bastrop County is included in the Austin–Round Rock, Texas, metropolitan statistical area.
The tree was received by Dr. G. W. Goldsmith, who supervised the botanical exhibition. Bastrop State Park confirmed that the tree was a gift to the university. [14] By 1937, Bastrop State Park's visitor attendance was high; it average close to 3,000 visitors a week during the summer months, according to park entrance figures provided by the CCC.
The site of the Luckett house was originally occupied by the Bastrop Academy, [2] one of the leading schools in Texas. [3] Citizens of Bastrop founded the academy in 1851 and the school received its charter on January 24, 1852. It was rechartered under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1853.