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Our Schools some of the best in the nation.

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Our Weather, made for living outdoors most of the year. Want to use your grill in the Winter, this may be the place, look at todays Temprature.

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OUR HISTORY

ROUND ROCK, TEXAS. Round Rock is on Interstate Highway 35 in south central Williamson County, sixteen miles north of downtown Austin. It was established on the north bank of Brushy Creek where Jacob M. Harrell,^qv formerly a blacksmith in Austin, set up his shop during the spring of 1848. The settlement was first called Brushy Creek. Thomas C. Oatts, who became the first postmaster in 1851, was asked by postal officials to submit another name, and on August 24, 1854, the town officially became Round Rock, as suggested by Oatts and Harrell, who often fished together from a large anvil-shaped limestone rock in Brushy Creek near their dwellings. The Chisholm Trail,^qv used by early cattle drivers on their way to Kansas, passed through Round Rock, crossing Brushy Creek near the rock.

Washington Anderson^qv had settled a short distance east of the original Round Rock in 1843 and built a gristmill, which was washed out by a flood in 1845. A later mill was installed west of the round rock near the present low-water bridge and dam. During the Civil War^qv a wool-carding factory opened nearby, and in the 1870s a gin was erected. Greenwood Masonic Institute, a three-story structure, opened in 1867 and was operated by the Masonic Lodge until 1881, after which the Cumberland Presbyterian Church agreed to take over its administration. They renamed it Round Rock Institute. It burned down on April 9, 1883, and a new two-story building was constructed on College Hill. This building burned down in 1913. Local citizens administered the institution until it was transferred to the public schools in 1888.

In 1876, when the International-Great Northern Railroad was built through Williamson County, its tracks were laid a short distance south and east of Round Rock. The community began to move toward the railroad and the south bank of Brushy Creek, building at first a tent city that was referred to for a time as "new" Round Rock. The original site was largely abandoned and was called Old Round Rock in official records. Since 1970 the town has developed in all directions, and so-called Old Town, consisting of a few restored limestone structures, is now surrounded by the rest of the city.

Within a year after the coming of the railroad, the town had a dozen businesses and professional offices, several hotels, a new broom factory, a lime plant operated by William Walsh, and two short-lived newspapers. The town's prosperity drew outlaw Sam Bass^qv to the area in 1878; his capture and death after a shootout that year are commemorated annually during the town's Frontier Days celebration. In 1879 the Round Rock Searchlight was established. This newspaper became the Round Rock Leader^qv in 1896 and was still operating in the 1990s. Trinity Lutheran College^qv was established in the community in 1906; it merged with the Lutheran College of Seguin in 1929. The Round Rock Cheese Factory opened in 1928 and operated until the early 1970s.

During the first six decades of the twentieth century, Round Rock had a population between 1,000 and 1,400. The town began to grow in the 1960s and became the site of much historic restoration and preservation work. The 1970s brought dramatic growth, as nearby Austin expanded and brought large-scale development to Round Rock. The town became a bedroom community for Austin and a site for manufacturing and industry. Its population rose between 1970 and 1980 from 2,811 to 11,812. Growth continued in the 1980s as the city became home to several computer-related industries and over 300 retail businesses. In 1990 the population was 30,923.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jane H. DiGesualdo and Karen R. Thompson, Historical Round Rock, Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 1985). Clara Stearns Scarbrough, Land of Good Water: A Williamson County History (Georgetown, Texas: Williamson County Sun Publishers, 1973). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.

Clara Stearns Scarbrough

Come for a visit you may stay for a lifetime.

OUR FUTURE:

We recently moved to Austin Texas from Las Vegas. Still the fastest growing City in the US, Las Vegas is a fun place live and a great place to live. We sold our Home there in Deceber of Last year and made a very nice profit. You can read about it on my blog titled: What I learned in Las Vegas

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We have beautiful 3 bedroom 2 bath Condo we are putting on the market just 5 minutes from the strip in a beautiful community called Marquesa. Granite countertops, spacious bedrooms, washer and dryer, cable and minutes from your favorite part of Vegas. Tired of paying the high cost of Hotels and food. Buy a piece of Vegas and share it with your friends.

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If you are coming to Austin you must have a Crepe!!! You can hardly get in during lunch the line is around the block and there is no place to park but if you can be patient you will enjoy the best food you have ever tasted. And for dessert try the Lemon Dreamcicle crepe with fresh blueberries, and the Cinnamon Sugar Crepe with cream cheese.

Throw down from the food network recognized Flip happy and challenged them but lost to the two ladies who started this great business. There lines from opening to close so be prepared to wait but the wait is worth it.

TECH THIS WEEK

WESTMINSTER, Colo., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Lynott & Associates (L&A), a
full-service public relations firm that represents technology innovators, has
been named agency of record for REAL Software Inc. The new client,
headquartered in Austin, Texas, develops and markets award winning software
development environments used to produce applications that run across systems
executing Microsoft Windows, Apple OS/X or Linux.
Westminster-based L&A will provide strategic planning, product launches,
media and analyst relations, white paper development and article writing and
placement for the company.

BUSINESS:

AUSTIN, Texas--(Business Wire)--Timothy Sullivan, President and CEO of Austin Texas-based Mystic
Pharmaceuticals will present at OneMedPlace Emerging Healthcare
Technologies Finance Forum on Jan 7th and 8th in San Francisco at the
Sir Francis Drake Hotel in Union Square. A growing company
specializing in novel drug delivery technology and pharmaceutical
products, Mystic Pharmaceuticals has been selected to be showcased at
the forum for its innovative approach and groundbreaking technologies.

REAL ESTATE:

Where are Austin home prices headed?

By American Statesman staff | Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 03:43 PM

So far, Austin has avoided the worst effects of the deepening national real estate slump. Sales are slowing, but prices are holding up in many segments.

Not so lucky are the former bubble markets on the East and West Coasts, where sales are downright cold and prices are sliding from their lofty highs.

Fortune magazine worked with Moody's economy.com to forecast price trends for 54 major markets over the next five years, and the bottom line was scary: an average 27.7 percent drop.

The calculations involved a hypothetical upscale home that cost twice the local median price, and the assumption that home prices should return to their historical relationship to the cost of renting a similar house.

In five years, the magazine and economy.com see prices dropping by more than a third in places such as Orlando and Miami, 24 percent in Los Angeles and almost 15 percent in San Jose.

Austin, however, will see only a 4.4 percent drop in that price range, compared to 13.2 percent in San Antonio.

Prices in Dallas and Houston, which avoided the bubble, are forecast to rise a little bit.

CELEBRATION:

360 celebration

By Charles Ealy | Monday, November 12, 2007, 10:53 AM

360 Condominiums will celebrate Tuesday with a topping out, honoring the construction team. The topping out, at noon at Republic Square Park, will feature the hoisting of a live oak tree to the top of the 44-story building.

Among the honchos on hand will be Charlie Betts, executive director of the Downtown Austin Alliance; Taylor Andrews, president of Andrews Urban; Bill Holley, Novare Group senior vice president of development; and Allan Dedman, JE Dunn vice president. 360 was developed by Novare Group Holdings and Andrews Urban. It will feature 430 residences and about 14,500 square feet of street-level retail space. It is expected to be completed early next year. It's at the corner of Nueces and Third streets, near the Austin Music Hall and La Zona Rosa.

Doing Business in Round Rock can be good for your bottom line.

Many people are hearing good things about Austin Texas and may not realize that Round Rock Texas is a key part of some of the good news about Central Texas. Round Rock Texas home of Dell computers, Prime Outlet Mall, two brand new Hospitals and a new university branch for Texas State University. Check out the links below to see just why Round Rock is good for Business and great for Business owners.

Life is Good in Round Rock
Video about the quality of life in Round Rock, Texas.

Doing Business in Round Rock
Video about the benefits of doing business in Round Rock.