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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 ...
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
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.
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.
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 ...
Just a mile west of Austin, Clarksville soon became a de facto part of the city, especially when the International-Great Northern Railroad laid tracks nearby in the 1870s. The Sweet Home Baptist Church, a cornerstone of the community to this day, was founded prior to 1882, and a school existed as early as the 1890s.
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 site of Woodlawn originally consisted of 365 acres (1.48 km 2) in West Austin. Then Texas State Comptroller James Shaw commissioned master builder Abner H. Cook (who also designed the Texas Governor's Mansion) to build a house for him and his fiancée. Shaw's fiancée later broke off the engagement, but Shaw soon found another woman that he ...