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The Austin and Northwestern Railroad began construction on a rail line west of Austin, Texas, USA, toward Llano on April 20, 1881. The railroad was originally built as a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge line with plans to connect to the Texas and Pacific Railway at Abilene. Construction reached Burnet, Texas, by 1882 and the line was later extended ...
Burnet (/ ˈbɜːrnɪt / BUR-nit) is a city in and the county seat of Burnet County, Texas, United States. [ 4 ] Its population was 6,436 at the 2020 census. [ 5 ] Both the city and the county were named for David Gouverneur Burnet, the first (provisional) president of the Republic of Texas. He also served as vice president during the ...
The Austin Western Railroad (reporting mark AWRR) is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. [1] AWRR is a subsidiary of Watco. It is the contracted operator of 126 miles (203 km) of ex-Southern Pacific trackage, now owned by Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority. AWRR operates the line from Fairland, Texas ...
The Burnett Transit Center is an elevated light rail station on the METRORail Red Line in Houston, Texas, United States. It was built as part of the North/Red Line Extension, and opened on December 21, 2013. [1] It has three tracks accessed by two island platforms, one for each direction. The center track is used by northbound trains short ...
Bertram is at the junction of Farm Roads 243 and 1174 and State Highway 29, ten miles east of Burnet in eastern Burnet County. The town was established in 1882, when the community of San Gabriel (near the San Gabriel River) in Burnet County was moved two miles northwest to the newly constructed Austin and Northwestern Railroad.
In 1852, the Fourth Texas Legislature created Burnet County from Bell, Travis, and Williamson Counties. [5] The first post office was established at Hamilton in 1853. [5] In 1860, 235 slaves were in Burnet County. [5] After the war, some former slaves left the county, but many stayed. A group of them settled on land in the eastern part of Oatmeal.
Pleasant Hill was a small community located about nine miles Northeast of Burnet on Farm to Market 2340 between Bethel and Lake Victor and was closely linked to Sage and Bethel but also Lake Victor. Pleasant Hill had its own school and cemetery. The people in Pleasant Hill were, like Sage and Bethel, mostly from Kentucky, Mississippi, and South ...
30°53′17″N 97°55′28″W / 30.888056°N 97.924444°W / 30.888056; -97.924444 (Briggs State Bank) Briggs. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. 3. Burnet County Courthouse. Burnet County Courthouse. November 15, 2000.