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Round Rock and Williamson County have been the site of human habitation since at least 9,200 BCE. The area's earliest known inhabitants lived during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age), and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9,200 BCE based on evidence found at the much-studied Gault Site, midway between Georgetown and Fort Cavazos. [13]
The original Georgetown Railroad Company was chartered on May 31, 1878, with a commitment to build a railroad the approximate 10-mile (16 km) distance between Georgetown and Round Rock. The first board of directors consisted of Emzy Taylor, Moses E. Steele, Thomas B. Hughes, J. H. Rucker, Duncan G. Smith, and John J. Dimmitt, all of Williamson ...
As of the 2020 U.S. census, the Austin–Round Rock–Georgetown MSA is the 26th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with a total population of 2,352,426. [1] The metropolitan area contains the City of Austin —the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 10th-largest city in the United States with a population of 974,447 people. [ 5 ]
This 1900–1910 "pattern book" house was moved to Georgetown from Round Rock, Texas, in 2006. It overlooks the South San Gabriel River. A densely overgrown, 1908–1910 Victorian house was found in Round Rock, Texas. (The site was later redeveloped for the La Frontera project.) The historic house was cut into pieces, and moved to Georgetown in ...
State Highway 130 (SH 130), also known as the Pickle Parkway, is a freeway and toll road in the U.S. state of Texas. It runs parallel to Interstate 35 (I-35) in San Antonio along I-410 and I-10 to east of Seguin, then north as a toll road from there to I-35 north of Georgetown. [1] SH 130 runs in a 91-mile (146 km) corridor east and south of ...
U.S. 79 is the main street of Rockdale in Milam County, Texas.. US 79 begins at an interchange with Interstate 35 in the Austin suburb of Round Rock.The highway travels through the town as Palm Valley Boulevard, entering into the town of Hutto just before an interchange with State Highway 130.
In 1963, while constructing an overpass in between Round Rock and Georgetown, Inner Space Cavern was discovered after a space was found more than once at 33 feet (10 m) below grade. A three-foot (0.91 m) hole was drilled into the space and an engineer was lowered into the hole for exploration.
Like most Texas Hill Country rivers, the San Gabriel west of the Balcones Fault is characterized by limestone river bottoms, some moderate rapids, small canyons, and muddy bottoms along slower-moving stretches; east of the Balcones Fault, the San Gabriel flows through the Blackland Prairie where rock features at the surface are more rare and ...