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Austin, Texas, a city synonymous with live music, boasts a rich and diverse musical history that has shaped genres and launched countless careers. Blues music found a home here as early as the 1920s, evolving through the mid-century and experiencing a significant resurgence with the emergence of Stevie Ray Vaughan in the 1970s and later Gary Clark Jr. The city also played a vital role in the development of Texas country and Americana, offering a haven for artists seeking a more authentic sound.

The latter half of the 20th century saw Austin embrace rockabilly, punk, and a burgeoning indie scene. The alternative music scene thrived, fostering experimental sounds and providing a platform for bands like Explosions in the Sky and Drainbow to develop their unique styles. The city's cultural diversity also fueled a vibrant Latin music scene, with artists like El Flaco and Rick Trevino contributing to the evolution of conjunto and Tejano music. Black Pumas have recently added to Austin's musical legacy with their blend of soul and rock. Austin continues to be a musical melting pot, where genres intersect and new sounds are born.

Music in Austin

Songs About Austin

What I Like About Texas
Gary P. Nunn
98%
"Swimming in the sacred waters of Barton Springs"
Lonely Lubbock Lights
Aaron Watson
98%
"I was singing at the ol' Broken Spoke"
Driskill Hotel
Owen Stroud
98%
"Driskill Hotel"
Screw You, We’re From Texas
Josh Abbott Band
97%
"Cause we got Stubbs, and Gruene Hall, and Antone's"
When I’ll Miss You the Most
Drew Kennedy
97%
"The way up Chestnut Street"
Boy Weren't We Something
Croy and the Boys
97%
"The old Antone's"
Work Was Through (feat. Aaron Watson)
Shane Smith & the Saints
97%
"Four Walls still plays at the Broken Spoke"
Midnight Dancer
Aaron McBee
95%
"Workin' at the Austin Yellow Rose"
Mack the Knife (Live)
Ruthie Foster
95%
"Paramount Theatre"
Close Don’t Count For Nothing
Paul Eason
94%
"take classes at ACC"
What It’s For
Tobe Nwigwe
94%
"Right outside the Governor’s Mansion on Colorado Street"
Donut Taco Palace
Shinyribs
94%
"Donut Taco Palace"
Ramblin' Jack and Mahan
Guy Clark
94%
"In the Driskill Hotel"
6th & San Jacinto
Memphis Kee
94%
"6th & San Jacinto"
Ian McLagan
Drivin’ n’ Cryin’
93%
"Down the alley at Yard Dog"
Crazy Eddie’s Last Hurrah
Reckless Kelly
93%
"So I went to the Horseshoe on Lamar"
What I Like About Texas
Jerry Jeff Walker
93%
"Swimming in the sacred waters of Barton Springs"
The Ballad of Charles Whitman
Kinky Friedman
93%
"Way up there on the Texas tower"
Screw You, We’re From Texas
Ray Wylie Hubbard
92%
"Cause we got Stubbs, and Gruene Hall and Antone's"
Birmingham Break Down (Live at the Big T Roadhouse)
Dale Watson
92%
"Live at the Big T Roadhouse"

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Artists From Austin

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Salvador
gospel
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Drainbow
indie
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Ty Myers
country
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Rick Trevino
latin
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Jerry Jeff Walker
country
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Willie Nelson
country
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Gary Clark Jr.
blues
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Black Pumas
rock
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Tritonal
electronic
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MISSIO
rock
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Spoon
indie
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Joe Ely
country
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Calvin Russell
rock
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SoMo
pop
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
blues
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Black Pistol Fire
rock
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Dale Watson
country
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The Sword
metal
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West 22nd
rock
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Balmorhea
pop

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Austin

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Austin.

Interstate 35 45 songs Texas Colorado River 6 songs Texas State Highway 71 2 songs Blanco River 4 songs Pedernales River 6 songs Guadalupe River 18 songs

Musical Heritage

Broken Spoke RoadyGoat

1964

When James White cut the ribbon on the Broken Spoke, it sat a full mile past the Austin city limits — out where the pavement gave up and the dance floor took over. He started building it the day the Army handed him his discharge papers, and he built it with his own two hands. Bob Wills played it. Willie played it. Dolly, George Strait, Roy Orbison, Kitty Wells. In 2021, Mick Jagger stopped in before the Stones took the track at Circuit of the Americas. White passed that same year — but not before the state hung a historical marker on the building, and Alvin Crow, who's worked that stage for fifty-one years, sent him off playing "Faded Love." White always called it the last of the true Texas dance halls. Nobody's argued him down yet.

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Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel RoadyGoat

1970

Ray Benson is six foot six in size sixteen boots, and he's kept Western swing alive for more than fifty years. He started Asleep at the Wheel as a teenager — in West Virginia, of all places — back in 1970. A Philadelphia kid who'd played guitar since he was nine, who even sat in with the Philadelphia Orchestra at eleven. The band knocked around California until Willie Nelson and Doug Sahm talked them into moving to Austin by 1974. It paid off: eight Grammys, a spot on the very first Austin City Limits in 1976, and a set at every Austin City Limits Festival since it began in 2002. Their thirty-second album just dropped — "Riding High in Texas." Western swing came up in the 1930s and hit its peak in the 1940s. Benson just never let it go.

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13th Floor Elevators and 'You're Gonna Miss Me RoadyGoat

Listen close to You're Gonna Miss Me and you'll hear something you can't quite place — a weird, warbling burble running under the whole thing. That's Tommy Hall, and his instrument was a crock jug with a microphone jammed inside it, amplified into a sound nobody had put on a rock record before. The 13th Floor Elevators cut the song in 1966 at Walt Andrus' studio over in Houston, with Roky Erickson out front, howling lead. On the charts it only crawled to number fifty-five — barely a blip. But numbers don't tell that story. An Austin band, an electric jug, Roky's voice cracking wide open — some records matter for where they landed, and some matter for where they pointed. This one pointed.

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Arlyn Studios RoadyGoat

1984

In 1984, Freddy Fletcher took over the old Austin Opera House and turned it into Arlyn Studios — a room he still co-owns with his wife Lisa. Willie Nelson's cut there. Gary Clark Junior will disappear into the place for months, sometimes four straight on a single album. But the session worth telling about is from spring 2021: Amanda Shires on fiddle and voice, Bobbie Nelson on piano, sitting down together to record standards — "Waltz Across Texas," "Always on My Mind." Two players, a stack of old songs, and the tape running. What came out of it was an album called Loving You. Some rooms just know how to hold a song.

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Austin live music scene RoadyGoat

You could hit a music festival in Austin almost every week and still not catch them all — close to forty a year. South by Southwest owns March. Austin City Limits owns October, and that one gets filmed and produced by PBS. The rooms run the whole range, from the little Continental Club up to the Moody Center arena. And it doesn't stop at the county line — down in New Braunfels, the Whitewater Amphitheater sits outdoors along the water and packs in five thousand six hundred people. Willie Nelson and Family had a night booked there back on May tenth. That's the thing about this town and the country around it. On any given evening, somebody somewhere is plugging in.

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Being Dead RoadyGoat

Ask the Austin trio Being Dead how they got together and you'll get a different story every time — that's part of the bit. What's solid: it's Falcon, Cody Dosier, and Nicole Roman-Johnston, and their harmonies are the thing holding it all down. Their debut, When Horses Would Run, landed in 2023, and the follow-up is called EELS — a record that can't sit still, swinging from shoegaze to surf rock to garage punk to full psychedelia. There's a track called Godzilla Rises. There's a new wave number called Ballerina. There's even one, Firefighters, about a firehouse dalmatian. Pitchfork gave the record an 8.3. So the next time they spin you some tall tale about how the band started — just smile, and let the songs do the arguing.

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Bidi Bidi Banda RoadyGoat

Bidi Bidi Banda started with exactly one goal: play a single set at Austin's Pachanga festival. That was ten years and roughly seventy shows a year ago. It's a Selena tribute band, fronted by Austin native Stephanie Bergara, who takes the stage in red lipstick as a nod to the Queen herself. Over the years they've turned up on bills with Billy Joel and De La Soul, played the State Fair of Texas, and won a stack of Austin Music Awards. In twenty fifteen they played the Marfa Lights Festival in an old USO building — the same room Selena herself sang in back in the late eighties. Bergara has since announced that twenty twenty-four would be the band's last touring year. She's stepping out on her own now, writing country. Ten years honoring one legend, then going and finding her own voice.

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Blues on the Green concert series RoadyGoat

For thirty-five years, Austin has had a summer tradition with no ticket, no gate, no bar tab: Blues on the Green. Austin City Limits Radio started it over at the Arboretum, then moved it to Zilker Park, and put on free shows — Gary Clark Junior, Jimmie Vaughan, Shakey Graves — funded on ice cream and kombucha money from local mom-and-pop vendors. Trouble is, it never really made money. Some years it didn't break even, and as the crowds grew, so did the bill for staging and hired police. In 2024 the organizers said they were done. Then H-E-B — the grocery chain — called up and offered to keep it going for good. According to the booker, the company even worked the city to waive some of the costs, and asked for nothing in return: no banner, no branding on the stage. Free means free. That was always the whole point.

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History of Austin

The Servant Girl Annihilator — Austin, Texas, 1884-1885 RoadyGoat

1884

Austin, Texas, eighteen eighty-four. The city was small, prosperous, and beginning to fill up with domestic workers from the surrounding countryside. Between December of eighteen eighty-four and December of eighteen eighty-five, someone moved through Austin killing them. Eight women died — dragged from their beds in the middle of the night, attacked with axes, knives, and iron rods. Most were Black servant women sleeping in backyard quarters. The city barely responded. Then two wealthy white women were killed in a single night, and Austin panicked. Police arrested dozens of suspects — laborers, cooks, one man who confessed and then recanted. No one was ever charged. The murders stopped. The city moved on. Journalist Skip Hollandsworth later documented a theory, taken seriously by Scotland Yard, that the killer may have traveled to London afterward. The Whitechapel murders began in eighteen eighty-eight.

Keep Austin Weird vs. Silicon Hills RoadyGoat

Austin's unofficial motto — 'Keep Austin Weird' — was coined in 2000 by Red Wassenich, a local librarian who called into KUT public radio and tacked the phrase onto his pledge, meaning it as a rallying cry for local bookstores and dive bars over chain stores. Leslie Cochran, a beloved homeless fixture who wore a thong bikini and ran for Austin mayor multiple times, became the living embodiment of the slogan — finishing second in 2000. By 2021, Tesla, Oracle, and Elon Musk had all relocated their headquarters or primary residence to Austin, dubbing the area 'Silicon Hills' and triggering a housing boom that priced out many of the weird people the motto was meant to protect.

Austin, TX RoadyGoat

Austin’s become a magnet for tech, but its soul is really rooted in music. It’s easy to forget that now, but the city's identity as the "Live Music Capital of the World" didn’t just spring up overnight. It grew organically from a convergence of factors. The University of Texas brought a constant influx of young, creative people. The relatively low cost of living, especially compared to other major cities, allowed musicians to actually survive while pursuing their art. And the presence of venues like the Continental Club, dating back to the 1950s, provided a stage for local talent to shine. Of course, South by Southwest, or SXSW, really put Austin on the map internationally. What started as a relatively small music festival in 1987 quickly ballooned into a massive event encompassing film, interactive media, and comedy. The festival acted like a supercharger for the local music scene, attracting industry professionals, media attention, and, most importantly, a constant stream of new fans. Even now, with the tech sector booming, the echo of a blues riff or the strum of an acoustic guitar still seems to resonate around every corner, a reminder that Austin's heart beats to a musical rhythm.

Whitman, Charles Joseph

1966

Charles Joseph Whitman, tower sniper, was born in Lake Worth, Florida, on June 24, 1941, the oldest of three sons of Margaret and Charles A. Whitman, Jr. He attended Sacred Heart grade and junior high schools, was an Eagle Scout at twelve, and graduated from St. Ann's High School in West Palm Beach in 1959. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on July 6, 1959, and was stationed for a year and a half at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He passed a test to enter officer training, was sent to a preparatory school in Bainbridge, Maryland, and then to the University of Texas at Austin in September 1961 to major in engineering. There he met Kathleen F. Leissner, and they were married on August 17, 1962, at Needville, Texas, her home town. Because of low grades he was ordered back to duty as an enlisted man in the Marine Corps on February 12, 1963. While still in the service he attended East Carolina State College in the summer of 1964. He was discharged on December 4, 1964, and returned to Austin, where he reentered the University of Texas in the spring of 1965 to study architectural engineering. In the summer of 1965 he attended Alvin Junior College and then continued at the University of Texas in the 1965–66 school year. He also worked part time and was a scoutmaster. In the spring of 1966 his mother left his father and moved to Austin to be near her eldest son. On March 29 Whitman sought medical and psychiatric advice at the university health center, but he failed to return as directed for further assistance. On July 22 he visited the University of Texas tower observation deck with his brother John. During the pre-dawn hours of August 1, 1966, Whitman killed his mother in her apartment and his wife at their residence. Later in the morning he bought a variety of ammunition and a shotgun; about 11:30 A.M. he went to the university tower, taking with him a footlocker, six guns, knives, food, and water. After clubbing the receptionist (who later died) on the twenty-eighth floor about 11:45 A.M., he killed two persons and wounded two others who were coming up the stairs from the twenty-seventh floor. On the observation deck of the tower, at an elevation of 231 feet, Whitman then opened fire on persons crossing the campus and on nearby streets, killing ten more people and wounding thirty-one more (one of whom died a week later). Police arrived and returned his fire, while other policemen worked their way into the tower. Several of the dead and wounded were moved to cover by students and other citizens while the firing continued. At 1:24 P.M. police and a deputized private citizen reached the observation deck, where police officers Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy shot and killed Whitman. Altogether, seventeen persons were killed, including Whitman, and thirty-one were wounded in one of the worst mass murders in modern United States history. An autopsy on Whitman's body revealed a brain tumor, but medical authorities disagreed over its effect on Whitman's actions. His body was returned to Lake Worth, Florida, for burial.

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Driskill Hotel

1885

Built 1885-86 by Col. Jesse L. Driskill (1824-1890), cattle king who moved to Austin in 1869. Brick dressed with limestone. Had three grand entrances -- one the largest arched doorway in Texas. "Ladies' Entrance" was on northeast. Bust of Col. Driskill is over south arch, busts of his rancher sons on east and west. Rich furnishings were selected by Col. Driskill, who leased out his hotel -- Southwest's finest when it opened, Christmas 1886. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1966

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The Governor's Mansion

1861

Official residence of the Governor of Texas. By law, each chief executive must live here during his term of office. Before the erection of this building in 1855-1856, the only official executive home had been the rough, two-story frame "President's House" at present Seventh and San Jacinto streets. Within these walls, many decisions of statewide import have taken place. Here in 1861, Gov. Sam Houston decided not to support the Confederacy. Also, like numerous 19th-century houses, the mansion acquired a ghost story after the nephew of Gov. Pendleton Murrah (1863-1865) committed suicide here. Built some thirty years before the pink granite capitol, this structure was first occupied by Gov. Elisha M. Pease, who selected the site and design. Pioneer architect-contractor Abner Cook supervised the construction of the stately residence, in Greek Revival style. Austin-made bricks were used, and huge pine logs were hauled from Bastrop, then adzed to form the six massive pillars with Ionic capitals. Distinguished visitors have included U.S. Presidents and heads of state from other countries. More than perhaps any other residence in Texas, the Governor's Mansion is a repository of Texas history. (1969) (Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1962)

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African Americans in the Texas Revolution

1835

Many African Americans, free and slave, supported Texas during its 1835-36 War of Independence from Mexico. Although official recognition of the African American role was generally denied, recorded accounts of individual acts of bravery and patriotism survived. Hendrick Arnold distinguished himself as a guide and soldier for Ben Milam's Texas army at the Siege of Bexar and later at the Battle of San Jacinto. William E. (Bill) Goyens, a prominent African American businessman of Nacogdoches, served as an interpreter and liaison for Sam Houston during treaty negotiations with the Cherokee Indians at the outset of the war. Samuel McCullough, Jr., a freeman, was severely wounded in the Goliad campaign in late 1835 and later recognized by the Texas Congress as among the first to shed blood in the Texas War for Independence. Joe Travis was among the few defenders of the Alamo to survive the devastating siege by Mexican general Santa Anna in 1836. Travis later carried news of the battle to General Sam Houston. African Americans are counted among the Texas army massacred at Goliad, among those who contributed money and transported supplies for the Texas army, and among those who died defending the Alamo. (1994)

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13th Floor Elevators

1965

One of the first psychedelic rock bands to reach national prominence during the 1960s, the 13th Floor Elevators included founding members Tommy Hall, electric jug player, 1965-69; Stacy Sutherland, lead guitarist, 1965-69; Benny Thurman, bassist, 1965-66; John Ike Walton, drummer, 1965-67; and Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson, lead singer and rhythm guitarist, 1965-69. Other personnel were bassists Ronnie Leatherman (1966-67) and Dan Galindo (1967-69) and drummer Danny Thomas (1967-69). The Elevators originated in 1965 in Central Texas with Tommy Hall, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, who was studying philosophy, psychology, and chemical engineering. The band, which included members from the group, the Lingsmen, began with Stacy Sutherland on lead guitar, Benny Thurman on bass (who also had played violin in the Lingsmen), and John Ike Walton on drums. Although not originally a musician himself, Tommy Hall performed on an amplified jug. Seventeen-year-old Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for an Austin band named the Spades, joined the group on vocals. Hall's wife, Clementine, reportedly suggested the name 13th Floor Elevators. Since most buildings do not have a thirteenth floor, the appellation seemed to imply that the band had the ability to travel to other dimensions and levels of consciousness. Others have suggested that the name refers to the thirteenth letter of the alphabet, "m," which stood for marijuana. In November 1965 Hall declared that the band had a "psychedelic" sound after reading the word in a book written by Timothy Leary, noted advocate of hallucinogenic drugs. Hall believed the garage rock band's mixture of rock-and-roll , folk , R&B, and drug-induced lyrics, coupled with Erickson's screaming vocals, was best described as "psychedelic." The Elevators claim to have drawn much of their musical inspiration from marijuana and LSD, both of which they used openly. In late 1965 the Elevators began writing songs. They soon signed with Contact, a small record label, and performed their first live shows together in Austin. Hall's electric jug, along with Erickson's dynamic vocals and stage presence, quickly set the group apart from other local acts and earned the Elevators a devoted following. Erickson's previous band, the Spades, had recorded the song "You're Gonna Miss Me" with the Austin-based label, Zero Records. The Elevators re-recorded the song with a harder sound, patterned more after their idols, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones. In 1966 the Elevators released their single featuring "You're Gonna Miss Me" and "Tried to Hide" with Contact Records. Local media began to take notice of the band, and it began touring outside of the Austin area and appeared on regional television shows including Sump'n Else with host Ron Chapman in Dallas and The Larry Kane Show in Houston. Later that same year, the Elevators signed with a Houston-based label, International Artists , which subsequently hired Lelan Rogers , brother of pop/country singer Kenny Rogers, to promote and produce them. The label re-released the Elevators' first single nationally in mid-1966. This single proved to be the group's most successful recording, climbing to Number 56 on the Billboard charts. The label followed with the group's debut album, Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators , which has been praised by some critics as one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever released. As the band's popularity grew, it traveled to San Francisco to begin a West Coast tour. Thurman, the band's bassist, chose to remain in Texas, so he was replaced by Ronnie Leatherman. The band was especially well-received in the San Francisco Bay area, where it played the Avalon Ballroom and Fillmore Auditorium, as well as several smaller venues. The Elevators appeared with such popular bands as the Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. (Reportedly, the Elevators had asked Janis Joplin to join the

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Things to Do in Austin

food 0.7 mi away
Franklin Barbecue

Legendary Austin BBQ with 2-3 hour waits. Obama waited in line here.
historical 0.1 mi away
Antone's Nightclub

Clifford Antone was a kid from Port Arthur who loved the blues so much he opened a club on East Sixth Street in 1975 and spent the next thirty years flying…
quirky 0.4 mi away
Congress Avenue Bridge Bats

When Austin rebuilt the Congress Avenue Bridge in 1980 the new design accidentally created perfect crevices for Mexican free-tailed bats. By the mid-1990s one…
historical 0.5 mi away
Texas State Capitol

The Texas Capitol in Austin is taller than the US Capitol in Washington -- three hundred and eight feet to two hundred and eighty-eight -- because Texas wanted…
nature 1.7 mi away
Barton Springs

Barton Springs is the main outflow of the Edwards Aquifer right in the middle of Austin. Thirty-one million gallons of sixty-eight-degree water pour out of a…
historical 3.4 mi away
The Broken Spoke

James White built the Broken Spoke out of cinder blocks on South Lamar in 1964 and stubbornly refused to let Austin grow up around it. Willie Nelson Bob Wills…
quirky 21.4 mi away
Willie Nelson's Luck Ranch

Willie built his own ghost town on his Spicewood ranch for the 1986 movie Red Headed Stranger -- a whole frontier village with a saloon chapel livery and…
nature 23.5 mi away
Hamilton Pool Preserve

A natural swimming hole under a 50-foot waterfall in a collapsed grotto.
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Sports in Austin

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 6A · Football · 2019–2021

Westlake — UIL 6A Football State Champions — 3 titles

Most recent: 40-21 over Denton Guyer · 2021 6A Division 2 final

Westlake High School, a Class 6A football powerhouse from Austin, Texas, has established a formidable record in state championships. The Chaparrals have secured three UIL 6A state titles, showcasing consistent excellence on the field. This impressive run highlights the program's strong tradition and competitive spirit within Texas high school football.

The school has also been a launching pad for several athletes who have gone on to play at major colleges or professionally. Notable alumni include Ethan Burke, Sam Ehlinger, Cade Klubnik, Bray Lynch, Seth McKinney, and Tanner Price, reflecting the caliber of talent developed within the Westlake football program. The community takes pride in these achievements and the continued success of its student-athletes.

State titles
3 (2019–2021)
Most recent
2021, 40-21
Class
6A
Key Players
  • Ethan Burke — , college football player for the Texas Longhorns
  • Sam Ehlinger — , NFL quarterback for the Denver Broncos
  • Cade Klubnik — , college football player for Clemson
  • Bray Lynch — , college football offensive lineman for the Indiana Hoosiers
The moment

In 2021, Westlake claimed the 6A Division 2 state championship by defeating Denton Guyer 40-21.

Sources: Wikipedia · UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)
🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 6A · Football · 2024

Vandegrift — 2024 UIL 6A Division 2 Football State Champions

Most recent: 24-17 over Southlake Carroll · 2024 6A Division 2 final

Vandegrift High School in Austin stands tall in Class 6A football, a testament to the hard work and dedication found in the heart of Texas. The Vipers have established themselves as a formidable presence on the gridiron, representing their community with pride and competitive spirit.

Their journey through the challenging landscape of Texas high school football has culminated in significant achievements, bringing state-level recognition back to Austin. The school's commitment to excellence in sports shines brightly, reflecting the vibrant athletic culture of the region.

State titles
2024
Most recent
2024, 24-17
Class
6A
The moment

The Vipers secured the 2024 6A Division 2 State Championship by defeating Southlake Carroll 24-17.

Sources: Wikipedia · UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)
🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 6A · Football · 2016

Lake Travis — 2016 UIL 6A Division 1 Football State Champions

Most recent: 41-13 over Conroe The Woodlands · 2016 6A Division 1 final

Lake Travis High School, nestled in the Austin area, consistently fields a Class 6A football program recognized across the state. The Cavaliers have established a strong tradition of excellence on the gridiron, making their presence felt in UIL competition year after year. Their commitment to competitive football has solidified their reputation in Texas high school sports.

The school has also been a launching pad for several athletes who have gone on to achieve success at major collegiate and professional levels. Notable alumni include Michael Brewer, Garrett Gilbert, Baker Mayfield, and Todd Reesing, all of whom have continued their football careers beyond Lake Travis.

State titles
2016
Most recent
2016, 41-13
Class
6A
Key Players
  • Michael Brewer — , American football player
  • Garrett Gilbert — , American football player
  • Baker Mayfield — , American football player
  • Todd Reesing — , American football player
The moment

One memorable championship moment for Lake Travis occurred in 2016 when they secured the 6A Division 1 state title by defeating Conroe The Woodlands with a final score of 41-13.

Sources: Wikipedia · UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)
⭐ HOMETOWN LEGENDS Class 5A · Football

Anderson Trojans — Anderson — a college & pro athletic pipeline

8 alumni who reached major-college or pro sports

Anderson High School in Austin, Texas, has a proud tradition of developing athletes who have gone on to compete at major-college and professional levels. The school's alumni include several notable figures in various sports. Among them are former NFL football players Ben Fricke, Thomas Henderson, Night Train Lane, and Bobby Micho, each making their mark in professional football. This rich athletic history reflects the dedication and talent fostered within the Anderson High School community.

The legacy extends to other sports as well. Former Major League Baseball players Justin Ruggiano and Lee Tunnell represent Anderson in professional baseball. On the basketball court, alumni like Rasmus Bach and Kris Clack have continued their careers as basketball players. These individuals highlight the diverse athletic achievements of Anderson High School graduates, inspiring current and future Trojans to pursue their athletic dreams.

Pro/D1 alumni
8
Class
5A
Key Players
  • Rasmus Bach — (2013) – basketball player
  • Kris Clack — (1995) – basketball player
  • Ben Fricke — (1994) – NFL football player
  • Thomas Henderson — (transferred) – Former NFL football player
  • Night Train Lane — Former NFL football player
  • Bobby Micho — Former NFL football player
The moment

Justin Ruggiano is a former Major League Baseball player.

Sources: Wikipedia · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)
⭐ HOMETOWN LEGENDS Class 6A · Baseball

Austin Mr. Maroos — Austin — a college & pro athletic pipeline

5 alumni who reached major-college or pro sports

Austin High School has a proud tradition of athletes who have gone on to compete at high levels. The school's athletic alumni include several individuals who have made their mark in major college and professional sports. These former Maroons have represented Austin across various sports, showcasing the talent fostered within the school's programs.

Among the notable athletes are Don Baylor, a former Major League Baseball player and manager, and Ray Culp, a Major League Baseball pitcher. The roster also features Zay Jones, an NFL wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and Scott Ruffcorn, a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Phillies. Additionally, Austin High is proud to count Xavier Silas, a former professional basketball player, among its distinguished alumni.

Pro/D1 alumni
5
Class
6A
Founded
1881
Key Players
  • Don Baylor — former Major League Baseball player and manager
  • Ray Culp — Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Zay Jones — NFL wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars
  • Scott Ruffcorn — former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Phillies
  • Xavier Silas — former professional basketball player
The moment

Zay Jones is an NFL wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Sources: Wikipedia · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)

Everything Near Austin

1282 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the nearest 200 are listed here — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • The Servant Girl Annihilator — Austin, Texas, 1884-1885

    Austin, Texas, eighteen eighty-four. The city was small, prosperous, and beginning to fill up with domestic workers from the surrounding countryside. Between December of eighteen eighty-four and December of eighteen…

  • Keep Austin Weird vs. Silicon Hills

    Austin's unofficial motto — 'Keep Austin Weird' — was coined in 2000 by Red Wassenich, a local librarian who called into KUT public radio and tacked the phrase onto his pledge, meaning it as a rallying cry for local…

  • Austin, TX

    Austin’s become a magnet for tech, but its soul is really rooted in music. It’s easy to forget that now, but the city's identity as the "Live Music Capital of the World" didn’t just spring up overnight. It grew…

  • Broken Spoke

    When James White cut the ribbon on the Broken Spoke, it sat a full mile past the Austin city limits — out where the pavement gave up and the dance floor took over. He started building it the day the Army handed him his…

  • Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel

    Ray Benson is six foot six in size sixteen boots, and he's kept Western swing alive for more than fifty years. He started Asleep at the Wheel as a teenager — in West Virginia, of all places — back in 1970. A…

  • The Tavern

    West Twelfth Street. The Tavern has poured beer since 1933 — the year Prohibition died — and the story goes it was pouring long before that, quietly, upstairs, back when it was still supposed to be a grocery store. They…

  • 13th Floor Elevators and 'You're Gonna Miss Me

    Listen close to You're Gonna Miss Me and you'll hear something you can't quite place — a weird, warbling burble running under the whole thing. That's Tommy Hall, and his instrument was a crock jug with a microphone…

  • Arlyn Studios

    In 1984, Freddy Fletcher took over the old Austin Opera House and turned it into Arlyn Studios — a room he still co-owns with his wife Lisa. Willie Nelson's cut there. Gary Clark Junior will disappear into the place for…

  • Austin live music scene

    You could hit a music festival in Austin almost every week and still not catch them all — close to forty a year. South by Southwest owns March. Austin City Limits owns October, and that one gets filmed and produced by…

  • Being Dead

    Ask the Austin trio Being Dead how they got together and you'll get a different story every time — that's part of the bit. What's solid: it's Falcon, Cody Dosier, and Nicole Roman-Johnston, and their harmonies are the…

  • Bertram Building (The Clay Pit)

    The building at 1601 Guadalupe Street in Austin is an Indian restaurant now, the Clay Pit, but it goes back to 1866 — a general grocer that fed the German families downtown, right on the edge of old Guy Town. Every…

  • Bidi Bidi Banda

    Bidi Bidi Banda started with exactly one goal: play a single set at Austin's Pachanga festival. That was ten years and roughly seventy shows a year ago. It's a Selena tribute band, fronted by Austin native Stephanie…

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  • Blues on the Green concert series

    For thirty-five years, Austin has had a summer tradition with no ticket, no gate, no bar tab: Blues on the Green. Austin City Limits Radio started it over at the Arboretum, then moved it to Zilker Park, and put on free…

  • Collings Guitars

    Bill Collings came to Texas to be a doctor. Premed kid out of Ohio, landed in Houston in the seventies, and instead of a stethoscope he picked up guitar tools — fixing instruments in the back of a machine shop. Then he…

  • DuMont's Down Low

    Tucked at 214 West Fourth Street in Austin's Warehouse District, suite B, there's a speakeasy called DuMont's Down Low. It's named for a real woman. Blanche DuMont ran one of the most successful brothels in Austin back…

  • Guy Town / Austin's First Ward

    You're standing in downtown Austin, but roll the clock back and this was Guy Town. From about 1870 to 1913, Austin's First Ward was the city's red-light district — ten square blocks of saloons, gambling houses, dance…

  • Joe's Bakery

    There's a jukebox at Joe's Bakery in East Austin, and if you sit there long enough, somebody's going to walk over and punch up Selena. Joe Avila started this Tex-Mex place, and when he passed in 2010, it didn't skip a…

  • John Doe

    Back in 1980, a band out of Los Angeles called X put out a record called "Los Angeles," and the bass player and co-singer was a guy who goes by John Doe. "Wild Gift" came the next year. X kept going more than four…

  • The Continental Club

    South Congress in Austin, a room that holds a hundred and seventy-five people and has held pretty much everything else. The Continental Club opened its doors in the mid-nineteen-fifties, and it spent its first couple of…

  • Balcones Escarpment · Things to Do

    The Balcones Escarpment is the fault scarp that defines the eastern edge of the Hill Country. It runs in a curving line from Del Rio through San Antonio up…

  • Six Flags Over Texas - Plaza · Historical Marker

    Texas is the only state in the union that has existed under six different national flags, and that's not just trivia. It shaped everything about this place. Spain claimed the territory in 1519 and held it for three…

  • Scarbrough Building · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Scarbrough Building, Austin's first skyscraper, completed in 1910. It was designed in the Chicago style and later enlarged and redesigned with Art Deco elements in 1930 and 1931. The store here,…

  • Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Building · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Building. Veteran Travis County official and historian Frank Brown (1833-1913) erected this structure in 1886. Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company bought…

  • Alpha High School · Wikipedia

    Alpha High School is a private alternative high school in Austin, Texas, part of the Alpha School founded in 2014. The school has "guides" instead of teachers. Students spend two hours each day on "ap

  • Greater Austin · Wikipedia

    The Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos metropolitan statistical area, or Greater Austin, is a five-county metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget. The

  • Texas Film Hall of Fame · Wikipedia

    The Texas Film Hall of Fame honors Texans who have made a significant contribution to film or filmmaking, as well as non-Texans who have made significant strides in the advancement of the Texan film i

  • Austin, Texas · Wikipedia

    Austin ( AW-stin) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. With a population of 961,855 at the 2020 census, it is the 13th-most populous city in the U.S., fifth-most populous city in Texas, an

  • Mexic-Arte Museum · Wikipedia

    Mexic-Arte Museum is a fine arts museum in Austin, Texas. The Mission of the organization is to enrich and educate the community through the presentation and promotion of traditional and contemporary

  • Bank of America Center (Austin, Texas) · Wikipedia

    The Bank of America Center is the 37th tallest building in Austin, Texas. It was built in 1975 and has 261,609 square feet (24,304 m2) of office space on 26 floors. It is 336 feet (102 m) tall and is

  • Scarbrough Building · Wikipedia

    The Scarbrough Building is a historic commercial building in downtown Austin, Texas. Located on the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street, the Chicago-style building was originally home to the fl

  • Driskill Hotel · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    Built 1885-86 by Col. Jesse L. Driskill (1824-1890), cattle king who moved to Austin in 1869. Brick dressed with limestone. Had three grand entrances -- one the largest arched doorway in Texas. "Ladies' Entrance" was on…

  • The largest arched entrance in Texas · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising past the legendary Driskill Hotel in Austin! Built between 1885 and 1886 by cattle baron Colonel Jesse L. Driskill, this place was the Southwest's finest when it opened on Christmas Day, 1886. Look for…

  • Antone's Nightclub · 0.1 mi · Things to Do

    Clifford Antone was a kid from Port Arthur who loved the blues so much he opened a club on East Sixth Street in 1975 and spent the next thirty years flying…

  • Driskill Hotel · 0.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Pulling up to the Driskill Hotel is like stepping back in time, and maybe even into a ghost story. This grand building was the vision of a cattle baron. Jesse Driskill, a wealthy cattleman, decided to build the most…

  • Site of John Bremond & Company · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of John Bremond & Company, a business that started as a dry goods store here in Austin back in 1847. It grew into a wholesale operation, and by 1905, it was roasting and distributing its own…

  • Site of Republic of Texas President's House · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Site of Republic of Texas President's House. Site of the Official Residence of Mirabeau B. Lamar, 1798-1859 President of the Republic of Texas, 1838-1841. The building was constructed in 1840 and…

  • O. Henry Hall · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past O. Henry Hall. Built during the period 1877-1881 as a federal courthouse and post office, this was the sixth United States post office location in Austin, dating from the establishment of the first…

  • The Driskill Hotel · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    Jesse Driskill built this hotel in 1886 with cattle money and a determination to own the finest building in Austin. It cost $400,000, a staggering sum at the time, and nearly bankrupted him within a year. The Romanesque…

  • Norwood Tower · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Norwood Tower, once Austin's tallest building besides the State Capitol! Built in 1929 by Ollie Norwood, this Gothic Revival gem was designed by Bertram Giesecke and August Harris, architects…

  • Littlefield Building · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Littlefield Building in Austin, a testament to George Washington Littlefield's success. After making a fortune in ranching and cattle, he founded the American National Bank right here in 1890.…

  • Stephen F. Austin Hotel · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the grand Stephen F. Austin Hotel, opened in 1924 by T.B. Baker. Originally planned as 'The Texas,' it was renamed to honor the Father of Texas. Designed in the Beaux Arts style, it even…

  • Sixth Street · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving down Sixth Street, originally Pecan Street, laid out in Edwin Waller's 1839 plan for Austin. This was the farm-to-market road, a stagecoach route, and the heart of 19th-century commerce with shops,…

  • H&TC and I&GN Depots · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Austin's first two major train depots. The first, built by the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, arrived on Christmas Day 1871, bringing hope and progress. Later, the International and…

  • Original Site of First Methodist Church of Austin · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the original site of Austin's First Methodist Church, established way back in 1840. This was actually the city's second Protestant congregation. In 1853, this humble meeting house hosted a…

  • Sampson Building · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Sampson Building, completed way back in 1860 by master builder Abner Cook. It first served as the general merchandise store for George W. Sampson and Abram Henricks. After Henricks died in 1865,…

  • Congress Avenue Historic District · 0.1 mi · Wikipedia

    Congress Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Austin, Texas. The street is a six-lane, tree lined avenue that cuts through the middle of the city from far south Austin and goes over Lady Bird Lake leadin

  • Frost Bank Tower · 0.1 mi · Wikipedia

    The Frost Bank Tower is a skyscraper in Austin, Texas, United States. Standing 515 feet (157 m) tall with 33 floors, it is the 15th tallest building in Austin. It was developed by Cousins Properties f

  • One American Center · 0.1 mi · Wikipedia

    600 Congress (formerly known as One American Center) is a high-rise office building located at the northwest corner of West 6th Street and Congress Avenue in the Financial District of Downtown Austin,

  • O. Henry Hall · 0.1 mi · Wikipedia

    O. Henry Hall, formerly known as the U.S. Post Office and Federal Building, is a historic courthouse and post office in Austin, Texas, United States. It is located within the Sixth Street Historic Dis

  • Indeed Tower · 0.1 mi · Wikipedia

    Indeed Tower is an office skyscraper located at 200 West Sixth Street in Downtown Austin, Texas. The tower is the eighth tallest in Austin at 542 feet. It is the second largest office tower in Austin

  • Jones Center on Congress Avenue · 0.1 mi · Wikipedia

    The Jones Center on Congress Avenue, formerly known as the AMOA-Arthouse at the Jones Center, is one of two museum sites of the Contemporary Austin, in Texas.

  • First Capitol in Austin · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the very first capitol building in Austin. Erected back in 1839, this was the heart of the Republic of Texas. Every president of the Republic performed official acts right here within…

  • Brown Building · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Brown Building in downtown Austin. Designed by C.H. Page and Son in 1938, this eight-story Art Moderne tower was built for legendary businessman Herman Brown. It housed offices for construction…

  • St. David's Episcopal Church (Austin, Texas) · 0.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Pull over here for a second; this church is a survivor. St. David's Episcopal Church is one of the oldest buildings still standing in Austin. The first attempt to establish an Episcopal church in Austin happened around…

  • Texas and the Civil War State Military Board · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Texas State Military Board, a unique agency born out of the Civil War. Created by the legislature, its job was to keep Texas supplied with essentials, even with a Federal blockade.…

  • Swedish Consulate and Swante Palm Library · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, past the site of the former Swedish Consulate and the remarkable Swante Palm Library. Swante Palm, vice consul for Sweden and Norway, built his home here in the 1850s, which also served as…

  • Central Presbyterian Church · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, heading past the site of Central Presbyterian Church. Its roots go all the way back to October 13, 1839, when the city's first Presbyterian service was held at Bullock's Hotel. Over the…

  • Paramount Theater · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Paramount Theater, originally built in 1915 as the Majestic. Designed by Chicago architects but built by local hands, it was a grand showcase for vaudeville, stage plays, and movies. Lavishly…

  • Saint David's Episcopal Church · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Saint David's Episcopal Church, Austin's first stone church, dedicated in 1853 as the Church of the Epiphany. It blended Spanish mission and Gothic styles, built by founders with ties to the Republic…

  • The Walter Tips Company Building · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Walter Tips Company Building, a grand Italianate structure built in 1876. Walter Tips, a Confederate veteran and civic leader, made this building the heart of his hardware business. It even…

  • J. L. Buaas Building · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the J. L. Buaas Building, a piece of Austin's commercial history. Norwegian immigrant John L. Buaas, who arrived in 1839, built this mercantile store right here in 1875. Designed with two fronts, it…

  • Openheimer-Montgomery Building · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Openheimer-Montgomery Building, built in 1894. It was designed and constructed by John McDonald, who also served as Austin's mayor. In 1899, it was sold to become part of a young girl's estate.…

  • Claudia Taylor Johnson Hall · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Claudia Taylor Johnson Hall, built between 1912 and 1914. This impressive structure was Austin's seventh U.S. Post Office, designed in a neo-classical revival style. After serving the public for…

  • Original Site of First Presbyterian Church · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the original site of Austin's First Presbyterian Church. It all started back on May 26, 1850, when Reverend William M. Baker and five members officially formed the congregation. One of those founding…

  • Norwood Tower · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    The Norwood Tower (previously known as the Capital National Bank Building) is a historic commercial building in downtown Austin, Texas. Built in 1929, the tower was named a Recorded Texas Historic Lan

  • Southwest Tower Building · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    The Southwest Tower Building is a 12-storey, 160,410-square-foot (14,903 m2) building at 211 East 7th St. in Downtown Austin, Texas and is located across the street from the historic Driskill Hotel an

  • Paramount Theatre (Austin, Texas) · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    The Paramount Theatre is a live theatre venue/movie theatre located in downtown Austin, Texas. The classical revival style structure was built in 1915. The building was listed in the National Register

  • The Austonian · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    The Austonian is a residential skyscraper in Downtown Austin, Texas, USA. At 683 feet (208 m) tall with 56 floors, the building is the third tallest in Austin, overtaking the 360 Condominiums and behi

  • William P. Hobby, Jr. State Office Building · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    The William P. Hobby, Jr. State Office Building - formerly known as Republic Plaza - is a three-building government office complex located in the Warehouse District of Downtown Austin, Texas, United S

  • Omni Austin Hotel Downtown · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    Omni Austin Hotel Downtown is an Omni Hotel in Austin, Texas at Austin Centre. It opened in May 9, 1992, taking the space previously held by a Radisson Plaza.

  • Austin Centre · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    The Austin Centre is a 16-story mixed-use hi-rise in Downtown Austin, Texas. The building, notable for its large enclosed glass atrium, contains office space, retail space, and Omni Austin Hotel Downt

  • Brown Building (Austin, Texas) · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    The Brown Building is a ten-story office and residential tower in Downtown Austin, Texas. It is 137 feet (42 m) tall. Completed in 1938 at the southwest corner of 8th Street and Colorado Street, the b

  • The Real World: Austin · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    The Real World: Austin is the sixteenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city e

  • United States Courthouse (Austin, Texas, 1936) · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    The Austin United States Courthouse is a historic former federal courthouse in downtown Austin, Texas. Built between 1935 and 1936, the building exemplifies Depression-era Moderne architecture, while

  • Austin Central Fire Station 1 · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    Austin Central Fire Station 1, is a fire station at 401 East Fifth Street in Downtown Austin, Texas, United States. It is a part of the Austin Fire Department. The Austin Fire Museum is located in the

  • One Eleven Congress · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    One Eleven Congress, formerly One Congress Plaza, is a skyscraper in Downtown Austin, the state capital of Texas in the United States. Standing 397 feet (121 meters) tall and containing 30 floors, the

  • Central Presbyterian Church (Austin, Texas) · 0.2 mi · Wikipedia

    Located on the northeast corner of Brazos and Eighth Street, Central Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. Central Presbyterian Church is a member of Mission Presbytery, in the Synod of the Sun regi

  • Comedy Mothership — Home of Kill Tony · 0.3 mi · Local history

    You are rolling past one of the most unexpected comedy landmarks in America. Right there at 320 East 6th Street is the Comedy Mothership — Joe Rogan's club, which he opened in 2023 after he moved to Austin and decided…

  • Evans, Ira Hobart · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the former home of Ira Hobart Evans, a man whose life spanned the Civil War to the roaring twenties. He fought for the Union, earning the Medal of Honor, and stood guard at President Lincoln's…

  • Congress Avenue · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving down Congress Avenue in Austin, the heart of the city, designed way back in 1839 by Edwin Waller, who also signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and served as Austin's first mayor. For years,…

  • Martin Parmer · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Travis County, passing the site where Martin Parmer is commemorated. Born in Virginia in 1778, Parmer was a delegate to the Missouri Constitutional Convention and a state senator before coming to…

  • E. H. Carrington Grocery Store and Lyons Hall · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the E. H. Carrington Grocery Store and Lyons Hall, built way back in 1872. It started as a successful grocery business run by Edward H. Carrington, who was formerly enslaved. After his death, his…

  • Millett Opera House · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Millett Opera House, built in 1878 by lumber dealer Charles F. Millett! This cultural hub for Austin hosted legendary actors like Edwin Booth and featured everything from operas to…

  • O. Henry · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, the city that O. Henry, born William Sydney Porter, called home for a time. He wasn't just a writer; he worked as a pharmacist, musician, and bank teller before his prison sentence…

  • Austin's Moonlight Towers · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the last of Austin's historic Moonlight Towers! Back in 1894 and 1895, the city erected 31 of these giants, each topped with carbon arc lights. These towers were the talk of the town, illuminating…

  • Hirshfeld Cottage · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Hirshfeld Cottage, a piece of Austin's early Jewish history. Built in 1873 by German immigrant Henry Hirshfeld, this stone cottage was home to his family. Hirshfeld, who arrived in Texas after…

  • M. M. Long's Livery Stable & Opera House · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, and you're passing the site of M. M. Long's Livery Stable and Opera House. When the Long family arrived in the 1860s, the first floor was a busy livery stable for their stagecoach line.…

  • George Weedon · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site where George Weedon, a veteran of the Texas Revolution, is commemorated. He was permanently wounded fighting in Captain William Fisher's Company at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836. Weedon…

  • Austin, C.S.A. · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Austin, C.S.A.. An active place during the Civil War, Austin was the site of the secession convention, March 2, 1861, and legislative sessions which lasted until June 1865. City visitors during the…

  • Schneider, J. P. Store · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of J.P. Schneider's General Store in Austin, a real hub back in the day. Young Jake Schneider, just a teenager after the Civil War, started out working for another merchant. By 1870, he and…

  • Esperanza School Buildin · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Esperanza School, one of the earliest one-room rural schoolhouses in Travis County. This log cabin was built on Richard McKenzie's property back in 1866, serving children from…

  • Saint Mary's Cathedral · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Saint Mary's Cathedral, which began in 1851 when Austin Catholics wrote to Bishop John M. Odin, asking for a clergyman to serve their rapidly growing city. Father Michael Sheehan was sent, and a…

  • Hirshfeld House · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Hirshfeld House, a beautiful example of Victorian and Eastlake architecture. Built starting in 1885 by German immigrant Henry Hirshfeld, a prominent merchant and Jewish community leader, this…

  • Smith, B.J., Property · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the B.J. Smith Property in Austin. In 1853, B.J. Smith, a school proprietor, bought this land at auction from the State of Texas. He likely built this house in the 1850s, and it stands as one of…

  • James Loraine DallasJames Loraine Dallas · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, and just off the road is the story of James Loraine Dallas. He served in the Army of Texas in 1836, fighting for Texas's independence. Born in Pennsylvania in 1818, Dallas lived a long…

  • William Sydney Porter House · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The William Sydney Porter House is a historic structure in Downtown Austin, Texas. William Sydney Porter, better known as the author and short story writer O. Henry, lived there between 1893 and 1895.

  • Republic Square (Austin) · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    Republic Square is an urban park in central Austin, Texas. Located in Downtown Austin, the park features a grassy area meant for festivals and events as well as shaded areas under live oak trees. The

  • Block 21 · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    Block 21 is a $300 million mixed-use development complex located in the Second Street District of Downtown Austin, Texas. Austin's eighth-tallest building, the W Austin Hotel and Residences and Austin

  • W Austin Hotel and Residences · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    W Austin Hotel and Residences is a 37-story hotel and residential skyscraper in the Block 21 mixed-use development in Downtown Austin, Texas, adjacent to the Second Street district. It opened in Decem

  • Willie Nelson statue · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The Willie Nelson statue, or simply Willie, is a bronze sculpture of singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, located in Downtown Austin, Texas. The statue was commissioned to artist Clete Shields by the nonp

  • Downtown station (CapMetro Rail) · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    Downtown station is a CapMetro Rail hybrid rail station in Austin, Texas, United States. It is located in Downtown Austin at the corner of Fourth and Neches Street behind the Austin Convention Center

  • Downtown Austin · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    Downtown Austin is the central business district of Austin, Texas, United States. The area of the district is bound by Lamar Boulevard to the west, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to the north, Inter

  • Moody Theater · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater (ACL Live or Moody Theater) is the theater and studio for Austin City Limits, completed in February 2011 as part of the Block 21 complex. The Moody Founda

  • Vulcan Gas Company (1967–1970) · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The original Vulcan Gas Company (usually called Vulcan) was the first successful psychedelic music venue in Austin, Texas. The Vulcan opened its doors at 316 Congress Avenue in the fall of 1967, and c

  • Texas Public Policy Foundation · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is an American conservative think tank based in Austin, Texas. The organization was co-founded in 1989 by James R. Leininger and Fritz S. Steiger, who sought

  • Sixth and Guadalupe · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    Sixth and Guadalupe is a 66-story mixed-use skyscraper in Downtown Austin, Texas. It is the second-tallest building in Austin (behind Waterline) and the seventh-tallest building in Texas.

  • J.J. Pickle Federal Building · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The J.J. Pickle Federal Building is one of the largest mid-century modern buildings in Texas and has a rich political history. The eleven-story structure is a quintessential specimen of mid-century hi

  • Millett Opera House · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The Millett Opera House, home of the Austin Club, is a historic building in downtown Austin, Texas. Built in 1878 by local lumber seller Charles Millett on one of his lots, the house was one of the la

  • The Ashton · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The Ashton is a 36-story residential skyscraper located in Austin, Texas. Completed in 2009, with a design by KTGY's Dallas Studio (formerly known as GDA Architects, LLC), it is 412 feet (126 meters)

  • Austin City Hall (Austin, Texas) · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    Austin City Hall is the seat of Austin municipal government, located at 301 W 2nd St in downtown Austin, Texas. The current building was completed in 2004. It is the meeting place for the Austin City

  • Buford Tower · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    Buford Tower (formerly the Austin Fire Drill Tower) is a tower standing along the north shore of Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin, Texas. The structure was originally built in 1930 as a drill tower f

  • Royal Arch Masonic Lodge · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The Royal Arch Masonic Lodge in Austin, Texas is a three-story beige brick Masonic building that was built in Beaux Arts style in 1926. It was designed by Texas architects J. B. Davies and William E.

  • Henry Hirshfeld House and Cottage · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The Henry Hirshfeld House and Cottage are two historic homes in downtown Austin, Texas, United States, originally inhabited by the prominent Hirshfeld family. The cottage, built in 1873, housed Henry

  • Bremond Block Historic District · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The Bremond Block Historic District is a collection of eleven historic homes in downtown Austin, Texas, United States, constructed from the 1850s to 1910.

  • German Free School · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The German Free School is a historic building in Austin, Texas. Built in 1857, the structure was home to the German Free School Association, the first Austin school chartered by the Texas Legislature

  • J. P. Schneider Store · 0.3 mi · Wikipedia

    The J.P. Schneider Store is a historic commerce building in downtown Austin, Texas built in 1873. Built along Second Street, the structure is the only remaining historic building in the immediate vici

  • The Governor's Mansion · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    Official residence of the Governor of Texas. By law, each chief executive must live here during his term of office. Before the erection of this building in 1855-1856, the only official executive home had been the rough,…

  • African Americans in the Texas Revolution · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    Many African Americans, free and slave, supported Texas during its 1835-36 War of Independence from Mexico. Although official recognition of the African American role was generally denied, recorded accounts of…

  • Temple Houston's sentinel of eternity · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Texas State Capitol in Austin, a building that's been the center of Texas government since 1888. It was built using limestone from Travis County and unique Texas Sunset Red granite, donated from…

  • Congress Avenue Bridge Bats · 0.4 mi · Things to Do

    When Austin rebuilt the Congress Avenue Bridge in 1980 the new design accidentally created perfect crevices for Mexican free-tailed bats. By the mid-1990s one…

  • Texas State Capitol · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    Austin became the capital of Texas on January 19, 1840, and this hill was platted as Capitol Square. A limestone statehouse built here in the 1850s soon developed structural flaws. The Constitutional Convention of 1876…

  • Texas Governor's Mansion · 0.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Imagine the secrets held within those walls! The Texas Governor's Mansion has housed every Texas governor since 1856. Designed by architect Abner Cook, construction finished in 1854. For over 150 years, it's been the…

  • Congress Avenue Bridge Bat Colony · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    Every evening from March through November, roughly 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats pour out from under this bridge in a dark, swirling cloud that takes twenty minutes to clear the span. It's the largest urban bat…

  • Henry Smith · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the territory of Henry Smith, a key player in early Texas history. Arriving in 1827, he was a delegate to the Consultation, helped author the plan for civil government, and served as the first…

  • Governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, and you're passing the site of former Governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton's residence. Nicknamed 'Colossal Jack' for his size and booming voice, Hamilton was the first Republican governor of…

  • Governor Edmund Jackson Davis · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the final resting place of E.J. Davis, a man who lived a life of Texas controversy. Born in Florida, he rose to Brigadier General in the Civil War, then led Texas' Radical Republicans. His tumultuous…

  • Governor Elisha Marshall Pease · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Elisha Marshall Pease, a Connecticut native who came to Texas in 1835 and fought at the Battle of Gonzales. Pease later served as governor, establishing Texas's first free public schools…

  • Governor James Edward Ferguson_Governor Miriam A. Ferguson · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Governor James Edward Ferguson_Governor Miriam A. Ferguson. Governor James Edward Ferguson (August 31, 1871 - September 21, 1944) Governor Miriam A. Ferguson (June 13, 1875 - June 25, 1961) James…

  • F. Weigl Iron Works · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, passing the former site of the F. Weigl Iron Works. Fortunat Weigl arrived from Germany in 1913, seeking work. He finally got his start in 1917, thanks to a local woodcarver who lent him a…

  • Old Bakery · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Old Bakery, built way back in 1876 by Charles Lundberg. Imagine loaves of bread, still hot from the oven, not sliced or wrapped, carried home in baskets by children and maids. Later, a front…

  • Site of Temporary Texas State Capitol of 1880's · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the temporary Texas State Capitol, built after the last one burned down in 1881. For five years, this three-story brick building housed the state government, saw tough legislation passed,…

  • Confederate Texas Legislatures · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, the heart of Texas during the Civil War. The state legislatures, working through years of conflict, faced immense challenges. They had to raise and equip 90,000 soldiers, defend two…

  • Austin High School - John T. Allan Campus · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Austin High School's first dedicated building, nicknamed 'Old Red.' Founded in 1881, this ornate brick structure was completed in 1900 and housed innovations like one of the nation's…

  • Site of Second Travis County Courthouse and Walton Building · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Austin's second Travis County Courthouse, built in 1875. It was a massive Victorian limestone structure that housed not only courts but also state offices. One of its most famous tenants…

  • Austin Public Library, 1933 · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the old Austin Public Library, a grand Italian Renaissance building that served the city for decades. The site was set aside for a library way back in 1913, but this beautiful structure wasn't…

  • Austin Woman's Club · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising past the historic Austin Woman's Club. This building started life way back in 1847 as a family home for Mrs. Catherine North. Fast forward to 1892, and it got a major makeover, transformed into a French…

  • Goodman Building · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising through Austin, and right here is the Goodman Building. Built in the early 1890s, it's got some cool brickwork and an iron railing that'll catch your eye. Joseph Goodman ran his grocery store on the main…

  • Emma West Flats · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Emma West Flats, a building with a story of resilience. After her husband Robert died in 1904, Emma West, a widow with four children, needed a way to make ends meet. So, in 1905, she had this brick…

  • Joseph and Mary Robinson Martin House · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Joseph and Mary Robinson Martin House, a beautiful home built in 1903 by prominent contractor George Fiegel. Joseph Martin was a key figure in Austin's business history, leading the Austin White…

  • Texas Highway Department · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the building that once housed the Texas Highway Department, a place that helped pave the way for modern Texas. Back in 1917, farmers needed all-weather roads to get their goods to market, and cars…

  • Randerson-Lundell Building · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, and right here is the Randerson-Lundell Building. In 1896, Cornelius Randerson built this spot as a grocery, feed store, and wagon yard. Then, John and Claud Lundell bought it in 1898. By…

  • Hofheintz-Reissig Store · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising through Austin, and right here is a building that served as a grocery and dry goods store for almost a century! Built between 1850 and 1875 by German immigrant Henry Hofheintz, this place was a…

  • Zachary Taylor Fulmore · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, passing the site of Zachary Taylor Fulmore's life and work. Born in North Carolina, he arrived in Texas in 1870, married into a prominent Texas family, and became a jurist, educator, and…

  • Gilfillan House · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Gilfillan House, built in 1905 for William L. Gilfillan, a founder of Austin National Bank. Designed by architect Charles H. Page, Jr., this brick home blends Mission Revival and Prairie School…

  • First Classes of the University of Texas Law School · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the original University of Texas Law School classes, right here in Austin. Back on September 15th, 1883, fifty-two students enrolled in law, taught by former Texas Governor Oran M.…

  • Travis County Government, Third Site for · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Travis County Government, Third Site for. Courthouse built here in 1939, 91st year of Travis County, which in early Texas was in municipality of Mina (later Bastrop), or Travis District, named for…

  • West-Bremond Cottage · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the West-Bremond Cottage, built around 1872 as servants' quarters. This 'shotgun' style house once stood near the home of Texas Supreme Court Justice Charles S. West. It was moved here in 1906 by…

  • Site of Tenth Street Methodist Church · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Austin's Tenth Street Methodist Church. Methodists started gathering here in 1853, building a sanctuary that saw expansions and name changes, serving as a spiritual home for legislators…

  • Original Site of First Baptist Church of Austin · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, passing the original site of the First Baptist Church. Organized in 1847, the congregation held services in the Capitol and a frame building before building its first sanctuary right here…

  • Texas State Capitol · 0.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Stand in awe of the Texas State Capitol, a towering symbol of Texas independence and governance. Construction began in 1882 and finished in 1888, after the original capitol burned down in 1881. Designed by Elijah E.…

  • Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    The bronze figure standing on the south shore of Lady Bird Lake, hat tilted, guitar slung low, is Austin's tribute to the man who brought the blues back from the dead. Stevie Ray Vaughan grew up in Dallas but made…

  • The Archive War · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, the capital that almost wasn't. Back in 1842, when Mexican troops threatened, President Sam Houston ordered the Republic's archives moved. But Austin's citizens, led by innkeeper Angelina…

  • Paid for with three million acres · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    The Texas State Capitol is fourteen feet taller than the United States Capitol, and that is not an accident. When Texas commissioned its statehouse in the 1880s, the state was land-rich and cash-poor, having just…

  • Texas State Capitol · 0.5 mi · Things to Do

    The Texas Capitol in Austin is taller than the US Capitol in Washington -- three hundred and eight feet to two hundred and eighty-eight -- because Texas wanted…

  • Texas State Capitol · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    The Texas State Capitol in Austin, completed in 1888, stands taller than the U.S. Capitol by 14 feet. Built with sunset red granite from Marble Falls, partly by convict labor.

  • Shane Smith and the Saints - Austin red dirt band · 0.5 mi

    That was Shane Smith and the Saints, an Austin, Texas red dirt and Texas country band built around the songwriting of frontman Shane Smith. The band came together after Smith moved to Austin from Terrell, Texas and met…

  • Ann Richards - Travis County Courthouse · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    Ann Richards grew up in Lakeview, a tiny town outside Waco, in a house without hot running water. She became a schoolteacher, a Travis County Commissioner, the Texas State Treasurer, and in 1990, the Governor of Texas —…

  • Governor's Mansion - Ma Ferguson · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    When James "Pa" Ferguson was impeached and removed as governor of Texas in 1917 for misappropriating state funds and was barred from holding office again, the Fergusons found a loophole: Miriam "Ma" Ferguson ran in his…

  • Westgate Tower · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Westgate Tower, a landmark of Austin's skyline. Designed by the world-famous Edward Durell Stone, it opened in 1965 as the city's tallest building. This mixed-use tower combined apartments,…

  • George W. Sampson Home · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the former home of George W. Sampson, a Confederate Army Captain and prominent Austin merchant. In 1872, he married Mary Goodwin Hall, niece of Governor Edmund J. Davis, in a wedding that was the…

  • Texas Newspapers, C.S.A. · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    Hey road trippers! You're driving past a reminder of a different kind of Civil War battle: the fight for news. Back in the 1860s, Texas newspapers went from 82 publications to fewer than 20 in just a year. Why? Most…

  • West Sixth Street Bridge · 0.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Dating back to 1887, this stone arch bridge marks the site of Austin's first crossing of Shoal Creek. You're looking at one of Texas's oldest masonry arch bridges right here. Before this bridge, getting from west Austin…

  • Site of Haynie-Cook House · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Haynie-Cook House, a Federal-style home built in 1852 by Abner Cook for Mayor Samuel Haynie. Cook, who was also working on the State Capitol, designed a house with Greek Revival…

  • General Land Office · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the old General Land Office building in Austin, a place with a surprising literary connection. From January of 1887 to January of 1891, the famous short story writer O. Henry worked right here.…

  • Boardman-Webb House · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Boardman-Webb House. In the 1850s Dr George T. Boardman (d. 1884) came to Austin to practice dentistry. He developed a new process to fill teeth and helped incorporate the American Dental College.

  • Robinson-Macken House · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past a real Austin gem, the Robinson-Macken House. Built in 1876, it's a stunning example of Second Empire architecture, with a distinctive mansard roof. Imagine this: three of the Robinson children…

  • German Free School · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    As you drive through Austin, look for the site of the German Free School. Education was a huge priority for German immigrants arriving in the 1840s and 50s. Since Texas didn't have free public schools then, they pooled…

  • Moore-Flack House · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising past the Moore-Flack House, built back in 1887 for John M. Moore, who was serving as Texas Secretary of State. It cost two thousand dollars – a pretty penny back then! The house started out in a…

  • Schneider Flour House & Vault · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the corner of Guadalupe and 2nd Street in Austin. Back around 1860, Jean Schneider planned to open a brewery here, but he died before it could happen. His family later opened a store on this site,…

  • First United Methodist Church of Austin · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Austin's second oldest Protestant congregation, the First United Methodist Church. It began in 1840 with just 14 members, meeting in temporary spots like the Republic of Texas Capitol…

  • Brizendine House · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Brizendine House. This simple vernacular rough ashlar house represents the life style of the late 19th century working middle class family in Austin. The exterior proportions of the structure reflect…

  • Central Christian Church · 0.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Central Christian Church, organized in 1847 by ten Disciples of Christ members. They held services in a school building before acquiring property at Eighth and Colorado. The congregation moved to its…

  • Armadillo World Headquarters · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    The building that made Austin a music city was a converted National Guard armory with no air conditioning, a dirt floor, and a capacity crowd that smelled like beer and patchouli. The Armadillo World Headquarters opened…

  • Texas and the Civil War_Secession Convention · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site where Texas made a monumental decision during the Civil War era. When Governor Sam Houston wouldn't call a special session to consider secession, a group of leaders took matters into their…

  • Seaholm Power Plant · 0.6 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Get ready to explore a landmark that once powered Austin: the Seaholm Power Plant! Built in 1951, Seaholm provided electricity to Austin for decades. It was a crucial part of the city's growth and development during the…

  • Fischer House · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Fischer House in Austin, a testament to a family's stonemasonry skills. Joseph Fischer, a Prussian immigrant, built this Italianate-style home in 1882 with his son, Francis. Together, they ran…

  • Price Daniel · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the birthplace of a true Texas titan, Price Daniel. Born in 1910, his career spanned six decades and touched all three branches of state government. He served in the Texas House, becoming Speaker in…

  • The Austin Statesman · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, and right here is the birthplace of a Texas institution: The Austin Statesman. It kicked off in 1871 as the 'Democratic Statesman,' founded by the Democratic Party to push back against…

  • Edward Clark House Outbuilding · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the outbuilding of the Edward Clark House in Austin. Clark, who served as Lieutenant Governor and later Governor of Texas, bought this property in 1856. This brick structure likely served as slave…

  • The Jeremiah Hamilton House · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past The Jeremiah Hamilton House. Born about 1839 in Tennessee, Jeremiah Hamilton was one of nine Black representatives in the 12th Texas Legislature, 1869-71. He bought this lot on Waller Creek in 1871…

  • Dedicated to a 35-year public servant · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Seaholm Power Plant, an industrial and architectural landmark in Austin. Commissioned in 1948 and built in two phases in 1950 and 1955, this massive complex was designed by Burns & McDonnell and…

  • Seaholm Power Plant · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    This complex is an industrial and architectural landmark in Austin. Electric power arrived in the Texas capital in 1895, after the Colorado River was first dammed to generate electricity. The city of Austin has owned…

  • Pease School · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the historic Pease School in Austin. This building is one of the oldest in Texas constructed with public funds, on land set aside for education way back in 1839 by the Republic of Texas itself. The…

  • Tyler Rose · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the birthplace of the Tyler Rose, a flower with roots stretching back to the early 1800s. Cherokee Indians planted native roses to mark their trails, and from these hardy plants, a classic hybrid was…

  • Swedish Central Methodist Church · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Swedish Central Methodist Church. Organized in 1873, the congregation moved here in 1898, adding 'Central' to its name. The property was sold in 1956 for state office expansion.

  • Franklin Barbecue · 0.7 mi · Things to Do

    Legendary Austin BBQ with 2-3 hour waits. Obama waited in line here.

  • Michael Butler and Butler Brick Company · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of a brick empire that helped build Austin! Michael Butler, an Irish immigrant, started his brick plant here in 1873. These yards, operating for over 80 years, produced millions of bricks,…

  • Smith-Clark-Smith House · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Smith-Clark-Smith House in Austin, a building with a fiery past! When the State Capitol burned down in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1881</say-as>, Scottish immigrant James Baird Smith…

  • Wahrenberger House · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising past a house that's seen some serious Texas history! Built in 1867 by Friedrich Huster in a simple Greek Revival style, this place has been through a lot of changes. It was leased to the German-American…

  • Site of Samuel Huston College · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of what was once Samuel Huston College, a beacon for African American education in Texas. It all began in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1876</say-as> in Dallas, as Andrews Normal…

  • French Legation · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, and right here is a piece of Texas Republic history! This is the French Legation, built in 1841 by Count Alphonse Dubois de Saligny. He was the French Charge d'Affaires, representing King…

  • Mauthe-Myrick Mansion · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising past the Mauthe-Myrick Mansion in Austin. This grand home, built in 1877, was the creation of Rafael Mauthe, a German stonemason who bought the land way back in 1856. His wife Mary lived here for years…

  • State Bar of Texas · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, near the heart of Texas's legal history. Back on July 15, 1882, a group of Texas attorneys formed the Texas Bar Association in Galveston, with Judge Thomas J. Devine leading the way. They…

  • Austin High School_Rio Grande Campus · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Austin High School's historic Rio Grande campus. Way back in 1839, Edwin Waller planned this area for schools. By 1881, the first grades were already using buildings here. The campus…

  • Adams-Ziller House · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Adams-Ziller House, a home with a story stretching back to German immigration. Augusta Adams, a widow from Germany, bought this land in 1857 and built this house around 1868. Her family married…

  • St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the original site of St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church, founded in 1883 by Pastor Henry Merz and twenty German families. They built their first church here in 1884, a Gothic-style brick…

  • Ebenezer (Third) Baptist Church · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Ebenezer (Third) Baptist Church. Organized in 1875, the congregation first met in a private home before building its first frame structure. Over the years, they built a brick sanctuary…

  • Scholz Garten · 0.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Raise a glass to Texas history at Scholz Garten, one of the oldest continuously operating businesses in the state! In 1866, August Scholz, a German immigrant, established this beer garden shortly after the Civil War. It…

  • The Railroad Commission of Texas · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Austin, and you're passing the birthplace of a Texas powerhouse: the Railroad Commission. Created in 1891 to regulate shipping rates, it grew into a giant, especially after taking on oil and gas…

  • Brackenridge Hospital · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Brackenridge Hospital, Austin's oldest public hospital. It started in 1884 as a 20-bed City/County facility. By 1915, a new building stood, and in 1929 it was renamed to honor Dr. Robert…

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