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English: This is a locator map showing Austin County in Texas. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
The 1839 Austin city plan (commonly known as the Waller Plan) is the original city plan for the development of Austin, Texas, which established the grid plan for what is now downtown Austin. It was commissioned in 1839 by the government of the Republic of Texas and developed by Edwin Waller , a Texian revolutionary and politician who would ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:35, 6 June 2019: 7,003 × 8,786 (13.33 MB): Michael Barera == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Map |title = ''Map of Texas with Parts of the Adjoining States'' |description = {{en|A requirement of the Anglo-American ''empresario'' Stephen F. Austin's contract with the Mexican government included compiling a map of his Texas colony, which he ...
Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of human habitation since at least 9200 BC. The area's earliest known inhabitants lived during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age) and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9200 BC (over 11,200 years ago), based on evidence found throughout the area and documented at the much-studied Gault Site, midway between Georgetown and Fort Cavazos.
The city of Austin, Texas, was established in 1839 to become a planned capital for the Republic of Texas. [1] Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar appointed his friend Edwin Waller to oversee the surveying of the new city and to develop a city plan for its layout. [2]
Mount Bonnell / b ə ˈ n ɛ l /, also known as Covert Park, is a prominent point alongside the Lake Austin portion of the Colorado River in Austin, Texas. It has been a popular tourist destination since the 1850s. [1] [2] The mount provides a vista for viewing the city of Austin, Lake Austin, and the surrounding hills. [3]
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On January 1, 2008, the site was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission, [5] which operates it as a state historic site open to the public. The site features a museum, interpretive trails, a statue of Stephen F. Austin, a replica log cabin, the 1847 Josey Store and relevant historical markers ...