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Roughly bounded by FM 973, old Burleson Rd. and Onion Cr. 30°10′03″N 97°39′43″W / 30.1675°N 97.661944°W / 30.1675; -97.661944 ( Moore's Crossing Historic Austin
For much of the 19th century, Shoal Creek and West Avenue defined the western edge of the city. Austin was planned on a 640-acre site on a bluff above the Colorado River, nestled between Shoal Creek (West Avenue) to the west and Waller Creek (East Avenue) to the east Edwin Waller in 1839. [4] The story of the settlement of Old West Austin ...
Scholz Garten (also known as Scholz Beer Garden) is a beer garden and restaurant in downtown Austin, Texas and one of the oldest operating businesses in Texas. Among the Texas businesses that predate Scholz Garten are the Daily News in Galveston (1842), the Excelsior Hotel in Jefferson (1858), the Menger Hotel in San Antonio (1859), and Imperial Sugar in Sugar Land (1842).
The first saloon was established at Brown's Hole, Wyoming, in 1822, to serve fur trappers. [citation needed] By 1880, the growth of saloons was in full swing. In Leavenworth, Kansas, there were "about 150 saloons and four wholesale liquor houses". [1] Some saloons in the Old West were little more than casinos, brothels, and opium dens.
Driskill Hotel lobby in 2012 Driskill Hotel annex, built 1930. Jesse Driskill, a successful cattle baron, had moved to Texas from Missouri in 1849. Flush with cash from his service to the Confederate Army, to which he supplied beef throughout the Civil War, he decided to diversify by constructing a grand hotel in Austin.
Thompson was born in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England to William and Mary Ann [nee Baker] Thompson, in November 1843. [1] The family settled in Austin in late 1852. Ben was 8 years old, William 6, and Mary Jane 4 years old at the time. Thompson worked for the Austin Rambler as a news printer's assistant while in his teens. Once he ...
3. Bandera, Texas. Nicknamed the "Cowboy Capital of the World," this Wild West town in southern Texas was a staging ground for the last cattle drives of the 1800s.
The West Line Historic District is a residential community in central Austin, Texas, United States. The district encompasses an approximately 90-block tract of land located west of downtown. Bounded by Baylor Street to the east, Fifth Street to the south, Thirteenth Street to the north and Texas State Highway Loop 1 to the west.