Austin History for GuidesEpisode Three1846—1899

Presented byTexpert Talks

War with Mexico

War with Mexico

Compromise of 1850

E. M. Pease Abner Cook

Texas State CemeteryEd

Burleson

A. J. Hamilton

Robinson-Rosner1856

Sampson-Henricks

1859

Saint David’s1854

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dirt-road Congress Avenue

The Civil War was bad.

near E. Ben White and Woodbury

Terry’s Texas RangersHood’s Brigade

Jeff Davis and Military

Confederate remnants

Happy Juneteenth

Custer’s Austin Stand

oldest Texas bar, oldest Austin business

August Scholz

Edmund J. Davis

Iron Horse arrives December 25, 1871

Walter Tips Bldg., 1875

Joseph Hannig Bldg., 1876Jasper Preston,Architect

Nicolas Clayton, Architect

Millett Opera HouseF. E. Ruffini, Architect

Old Main, UT

Breakie-poo

Down goes the old . . .

. . . and up comes the new.

Colonel Driskill builds his hotel

. . . with a little help

from Jasper Preston.

New Capitol finished and dedicated,

1888

1887

Elisabet Ney

UT’s Old Main

Athol, Margaret,and Will Porter

Susanna Dickinson Hannig

Fronts on Backs

Brush Squarefrom the air

Bremond Block

Ben Thompson

King Fisher

Great Granite Dam,Lake McDonald

Moonlight Towers, 1895

To be continued . . .