Bastrop County, TX
established 1836


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Bastrop

Courthouse History

 First Courthouse

 1883 Courthouse

1925 Jail remodel

 1923 Courthouse

 1923 Courthouse

1990 Courthouse

 Stump at Courthouse J Gillespie 1839-1895 (removed from Fairview Cemetery and was his headstone marker) Has the date he arrived and date he died.

Bastrop 1887

Early Bastrop Township by the river

First Bastrop Colorado River Bridge

 

Birds Eye View of Bastrop Township

1887 Bastrop

Bastrop Downtown

1889 Bastrop Academy

1890 Texas Terry Rangers Parade

1890 Volunteer Fire Dept

 1900 Auction

General Store

1905 Main Street

1908 Main Street

1908 Bastrop Baseball Team                      

1910 Bastrop Advertiser

1910 Bastrop Electric and Water Co

TA Hasler Store

TA Hasler House

TA Hasler Store

 

1912 Bastrop Main Street

1920 Wilbarger Lumber

Bastrop City Garage

Bastrop Hospital

Veterans Reunion abt 1920

1923 Colorado Bridge Construction

 

 

 Bastrop Band

Bastrop Band

 Bastrop Flood

Colorado River 1936

1945? CCC Building the Refrectory at the State Park

Inside refrectory

Electric Park with Stack Lillian Waugh collection

R. Green Cotton Gin Smoke Stack

Edwards Saw Mill with smoke stack in background - courtesy of M. Darling

 Cotton Pickers

Bastrop Commercial District

Military Academy 

Tower Theatre & Bus stop Bastrop

Bastrop Cafe

Bastrop Train Depot

 

 Majic Mill Diner (was China Chef after it burned) (now torn down)

 

Bastrop High School (old)    1922

 Wilbarger House, Bastrop  1976

 Eilers House, Bastrop, 1975

 Bastrop Tavern

Bastrop Tavern 1976

First Baptist Church 1940

Calvary Episcipal Church Bastrop

 ME Church

 ME Church

First National Bank Check

Coleman Fort Historical Marker, Cnty Rd 969 Lillian Waugh collection

Bastrop Fishing Club, Bastrop courtesy of M. Darling

Fairview Entrance Lillian Waugh collection

German Grave in Fairview Lillian Waugh collection

Elgin

Elgin Birdseye View

Elgin Town

  

Elgin High School

 Elgin Union Station

 Elgin Saloon

Ray's Barber Shop 1910

Hills Prairie

Abram Wiley Hill

D O Hill

Robert Hill

David Crocket Hill

Hill House, Hills  Prairie       3    4    5    6 (not available)

Wiley Hill Veterans Headstone, Hills Prairie Lillian Waugh collection

Hill House, Hills Prairie, before renovations

Old Hill House

 Hill House #3

Hill Cemetery in Hills Prairie Lillian Waugh collection

Smithville

Old Smithville Colorado Bridge

Smithville Bridge 1935

1908 Smithville Colorado Bridge

1940 when Bridge was unstable.

 

Smithville TOPO Map

Barr Grocery Smithville

Smithville intersection 1928

Main Street Smithville Lillian Waugh collection

Main Street Smithville 1942 

Smithville 1942

Smithville Fishing

 

Colorado River Bridge Smithville courtesy of M. Darling (span old)

 

Smithville School 1917 courtesy of M. Darling (taken down in 1950's) 

Smithville School

Presbyterian Church, (old) Smithville courtesy of M. Darling

Baptist Church, Smithville courtesy of M. Darling

Smithville Train Depot 1928

Smithville Train Explosion

M.K.&T Roundhouse in Smithville courtesy of M. Darling

Y.M.C.A. Smithville by M.K.&.T courtesy of M. Darling

YMCA Smithville

Smithville YMCA

Trousdale Druge Store

Gotcher Trace

Gotcher Farm (Lillian Waugh Collection)

Gotcher Barn

Gotcher Barn #2

Sim Gideon Power Plant

Camp Swift

Post Card

Camp Swift Chapel

Church Services 

Alum Creek

1923 Alum Creek School

 

Rockne

Lehman House

Utley

Utley Bridge

Utley Bridge Construction

Red Rock