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September 25, 1997 (East of Bastrop, bet. TX 21 & 71: Bastrop: 7: Judge R. Batts House: Judge R. Batts House: December 22, 1978 (609 Pecan St. Bastrop: Church now stands at the site
East of Bastrop, bet. TX 21 & 71 ... Belvin Street Historic District: Belvin Street Historic District. December 1, 1983 ... 100-500 blk. Mercer, 100 blk. Wallace, 100 ...
The Crocheron–McDowall House is located on 1506 Wilson Street in downtown Bastrop, Texas, United States. [1] The property was originally a farm owned by Confederate judge William Pinckney Hill, who was granted the land by a corporation in Bastrop on 2 July 1838. After failing to pay property taxes, however, Bastrop County authorities seized ...
‡ Listed as a contributing property of an NRHP Historic District ... TX FM 1457 off of State Highway 159 ... Bastrop: 1962 Spring Street, Bastrop
A fire in 1862 destroyed most of downtown Bastrop's commercial buildings and the county courthouse. As a result, most current downtown structures postdate the Civil War. In 1979, the National Register of Historic Places admitted 131 Bastrop buildings and sites to its listings. This earned Bastrop the title of the "Most Historic Small Town in ...
Some of these sites are on the National Register of Historic Places (NR) as independent sites or as part of larger historic district. Several of the sites are National Historic Landmarks (NRL). Others have Texas historical markers (HM). The citation on historical markers is given in the reference.
Notable buildings include the Old Stag Clothing Store, Mercer County Schools Warehouse (c. 1930), Cleaners and Laundry Building (c. 1915), Sively Company Building (1913), Mullins Brothers Building (1912), and D&D Saddle and Tack Building (c. 1915). [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1]
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. In 1856, the male part of the academy became the Bastrop Military Institute, which trained young men for service during the Civil War .