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The Treaty Oak is a Texas live oak tree in Austin, Texas, United States, and the last surviving member of the Council Oaks, a grove of 14 trees that served as a sacred meeting place for Comanche and Tonkawa tribes before European colonization of the area. Foresters estimate the Treaty Oak to be about 500 years old.
The Daniel H. and William T. Caswell Houses are two historic homes in downtown Austin, Texas completed near the turn of the 20th century. The buildings are located at 1404 and 1502 West Avenue, respectively. The Daniel H. Caswell House is home to the Austin Junior Forum, a volunteer organization. The William T. Caswell House is used for office ...
Treaty Oak may refer to: Treaty Oak (Austin, Texas), extant; Treaty Oak (Jacksonville), in Florida, extant; Treaty Oak (New York City), toppled in a storm in March 1909; Treaty Oak (Washington, D.C.), felled in 1953
The Rainey Street neighborhood was first developed in 1884 by cattle baron Jesse Driskill and Frank Rainey, who subdivided 16 acres of land between the Colorado River and Water Street (now known as Cesar Chavez Blvd.) [5] The neighborhood was initially populated by white, middle class tradesman, though by the 1920s the area began to see a larger influx of working class families and ethnic ...
Purchase tickets online at austinareaarts.org, at the Austin ArtWorks Center, 300 N Main St (open Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or on the day of the show only at ...
After the 2000–2001 school year TSD sold this property to the City of Austin, and the two campuses were consolidated. [4] The Austin Animal Center now occupies the site. [3] The original campus was on a 100-acre (40 ha) site between 38th Street and 45th Street on Bull Creek Road. [1] TXDOT had offices there from the 1980s.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is a gifted education program for school-age children founded in 1979 by psychologist Julian Stanley at Johns Hopkins University. It was established as a research study into how academically advanced children learn and became the first program to identify academically talented students through ...
The James Earl Rudder State Office Building is a historic office building in downtown Austin, Texas, USA. Built in 1918, the five-story structure features 18-foot ceilings and terrazzo and marble flooring. [2]