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February 19, 2015 Volume 20, No. 4 Southwest Austin’s Community Newspaper Since 1995
20th Anniversary Edition
Old Oak Hill History Issue
Old Oak Hill School • History from Buster and Erelene’s • Yesteryear yarns and more!
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Civic Agenda This space is reserved for information on civic happenings that occur in, or relate to the Southwest Austin area. To be included in the Civic Agenda, a meeting or event must relate to public policy. For other community events please see our community calendar on page 10. If you would like to be included, please e-mail editorial@ oakhillgazette.com with the subject “Civic Agenda” and include details of your meeting or happening, along with any relevant agenda items. Austin Water Meeting on Additional Stage 3 Water Restrictions Thursday, February 19, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Room 104 of Waller Creek Center, 625 East 10th Street This workshop is being held to consider additional restrictions during Stage 3 and lake level triggers for these additional restrictions. Implementation of drought-related Stage 4 restrictions will also be discussed. Free parking will be available in the parking garage next to the building. During this meeting, Austin Water staff will discuss the results of our first public meeting held in January and share an outline of the restrictions and lake level triggers determined through this process. Notes and the presentation from the first meeting held on January 15 are available at www.WaterWiseAustin.org under Current Water Conservation Initiatives. If you plan to attend, RSVP via email WaterCon@austintexas.gov
or contact the Water Conservation Division at (512) 974-2199. AISD hosts Sustainability Resource Fair Wednesday, Feb. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Austin City Hall, 301 W. Second St. Austin ISD’s Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee is hosting a Sustainability Resource Fair to help schools start or enhance green initiatives at their school. The fair will provide resources to campus green team representatives at each school and other AISD staff. AISD’s Campus Green Teams assist in implementing energy saving and other sustainable practices at their respective campuses. The fair includes booths with information on sustainability programs and resources, as well as presentations on how AISD schools can help the city of Austin meet its goal of diverting 90 percent of waste from landfills by 2040. There will also be a hands-on workshop for attendees to make signs and label bins to help with sorting recycling, composting and landfill trash. This is a green event. Public transportation, carpooling, biking and walking is encouraged. Free parking is available in the City Hall garage with validation. For more information, visit ESAC online or contact Jen Cregar, AISD sustainability coordinator, at (512) 414-3072. Registration now open for City Open Government Symposium April 9, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Austin City Hall, 301 W. Second St. The City of Austin will host its second Open Government Symposium featuring legal experts discussing open government issues including legislation, litigation, trends and the role of an ethics and compliance program in supporting government transparency. Opening remarks will be provided by Austin Mayor Steve Adler. The agenda includes five panel discussions. The event is free and open to the public and attending attorneys can receive Continuing Legal Education credit at no cost. To register for the symposium visit austintexas.gov/opengov2015. 30th Clean Sweep Austin Saturday, April 11th Sign up to lead a project location for Clean Sweep and clean your neighborhood, school, or local creek. It’s so easy – register your project at www. keepaustinbeautiful.org/CleanSweep and they will provide cleanup supplies, trash collection, and help recruit and register all the extra volunteers you need. Are you not ready to lead a site but are interested in volunteering? General volunteer registration opens March 6th. For questions regarding volunteering or registering a cleanup site, please contact Rebecca, at 512391-0617x705. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. To become a 2015 Clean Sweep Sponsor, donate door prizes, or provide cleanup supplies, contact Monica via email or at 512-391-0617 x703.
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20th Anniversary Edition
Old Oak Hill History Issue
Old Oak Hill School —a history, and a hope by Ann Fowler Schools have long been important to Oak Hill, operating and educating in the area since 1856. When the Public or Free School Law was enacted in 1879, James Andrew Patton, the unofficial mayor of Oak Hill, was elected one of the first Oak Hill trustees. He would hold that position for 40 years. The “Live Oak Springs” school was replaced in 1865 by a log cabin: the Shiloh School. A wooden frame building on Williamson Creek replaced Shiloh in 1879. This oneroom schoolhouse was enlarged to two rooms simply by hanging a curtain across the center. Citizens passed a bond election in Continued on page 31
Through these windows of the now vacant school, kids once looked out at Joe Tanner’s Blacksmith Shop. Gazette: Will Atkins
J.A. Patton donated an acre of land to build Oak Hill Elementary School, which opened in 1923. Rooms were added to the school in 1933, 1953 and 1958. Gazette: Will Atkins
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Buster and Erelene Enochs saw Oak Hill history march past their front door on the highway Editor’s note: This story and interview with Erelene took place in 2001 as she neared her 90th birthday—she died in 2006 at the age of 93. Buster died in 2010 at the age of 96. The couple spent their last years living on Buster’s family ranch in Eldorado, Texas, where he was born. On the 20th anniversary of our history edition, we present from our archives the story of Buster and Erelene Enochs in its entirety. by Kevin Brown Nestled between the stone structure of the Austin Pizza Garden and the old Oak Hill School is a neat house that Buster and Erelene Enochs have called home since their marriage in 1945. And while the Enochs have raised their children and earned their living
at the location, Erelene might very well make the claim of being Oak Hill’s oldest continuous resident. As her ninetieth birthday approaches, she’ll tell you she’s lived in that very house since she was twoyears-old. Needless to say, through the front door she has seen many Continued on page 10
The house was built in the late 1800s, and is currently occupied by Buster and Erelene’s son Archie.
This photo of Erelene is believed to be from the mid-1920’s in front of the Old Oak Hill school—possibly at a school dedication ceremony.
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I think it finally hit me how old I am this past weekend. Not so much that the wife and I packed it in and went to bed at 8 p.m. on a Saturday night, and not even because we had both spent that whole day doing little more than picnicking in the sun (including a nap)—and were still exhausted before the prime time TV shows got rolling. No, I believe the realization of my impending decrepitude smacked me upside la cabeza when the wife and I began seriously debating burial versus cremation plans. For our own selves, that is. Yes, the big decision: the Perpetual Dirt Nap or the Oversized Oven. It occurred to me as we pondered the possible fates of our earthbound carcasses that I’d never really given it much thought. But I figure since I’m not leasing out this anatomical apartment anymore by the time they put a twist-tie on my big toe they can pretty much do what they want with the ol’ hide. They can boil me down and pour me into so many jars of Nutella, for all I’m going to care. I may not be a top-selling flavor, but hey. It would be somehow comforting to know that I’m living on as a snack spread and that folks from Nantucket to Nacogdoches have jars of me in their pantry. Anyway, as Sue and I delved deeper into the topic du terminàl, we came to a bit of a snag. A corpse conundrum. A deceased dilemma. A cadaver quand—OK, I’ll stop. Despite my self-professed indifference regarding the destiny of my mortal coil, I found myself leaning toward the traditional tacklebox treatment. I like the idea of me being gussied up, laid out in my Sunday best inside a cozy carton, and having everybody file by my
formaldehyde-stuffed loved ol’ Eunice you face to tell me what a won’t settle for a rungreat guy I was. Some of-the-mill pine box. may have to stretch You’ll of course want the truth a bit, but the Cadillac of coffins, what will they care? lovingly handcrafted I’m dead. from the finest maNow, Sue, on the hogany and appointed other hand, prefers with cashmere pillows, the kiln. She sees the sincerity-package herself in a nice vase extra legroom, ivory on someone’s mantel, handles, and whitesilently scolding a walls. Get this, they’ll great granddaughter even tell you that you Roger White or two to dust the den need to line the coffin for heaven’s sake. with a protective seal Though I can’t envision the that will keep your dearly departeternal me as a pile of cigar ash, ed from moisture, rot, or nasty the wife may have a point. Not invasive weevils and such. That’s to wax morbid, but have you correct, they’ll try to sell you a laid a loved one to rest lately? casket gasket. It’s the height (or Your standard funeral—with the depth, I guess) of absurdity. Isn’t rectangular real estate and the the whole point of committing coffin and the headstone and the your bod into the ground so viewing and services and eulogy that you will be absorbed back and graveside wailings and all— into the bosom of Mother Earth? costs more than a brand-new jet There’s a whole host of accesski, nicely equipped. I’m talking sories like this that the smiling over $10k, my friends. Although mortuary man will gently present I did notice that Sea-Doos were to you as a means to show Aunt on sale the other day for a pretty Eunice how much you really good discount, but you have cared. My advice? Picture yourto join the credit union. Wait, self at the car salesman’s desk funerals. Right. at Big Al’s—that protective seal Here’s another thing about on your aunt’s casket is nothing the whole burial option: If you more than the rustproof undergo that route, have a trusted coating they want to put on your compadre accompany you to Buick. Forget it. the funeral home—because if It’s like Joe Pesci said in Casiyou haven’t endured this before, no—always the dollars, always beware, my pallbearing pal. the dollars. Shee, maybe the Funeral parlor people are car wife is onto something. I guess salesmen incognito. They may I wouldn’t mind being vacuspeak softer and smile and nod um-packed into a beer stein more compassionately than the perched over the fireplace. As guys at Big Al’s Auto Emporium, long as I can face the TV. but they are cut from the very same cloth. The things these Roger White is a freelance writer people will try to sell you—at a living in Austin, Texas, with his time when they know you are at lovely wife, two precocious daughyour most vulnerable—would ters, a very fat dachshund, and a make Great Aunt Eunice roll cat with Epstein-Barr. For further over in her “value-added” grave. adventures, visit oldspouse.wordThey’ll insist that if you really press.com.
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Heart Disease Awareness Month by Gerald Daugherty, Precinct 3 Commissioner In my last article, I touched on staying safe at home in the winter. This time, I want to talk about something on a more personal level. With Valentine’s Day, February is best known as the month for affairs of the heart. But, rather than talking love, I want to talk heart health. February is recognized both nationally and by Travis County as Heart Health Month. When discussing heart health, it’s important to recognize one of the leading critical health issues in America—Heart Disease. Heart disease, according to the American Heart Association, includes several problems: heart attack, stroke, heart failure, arrhythmia, and heart valve problems. All of these conditions are related to a process called atherosclerosis—when plaque builds up in the walls of the arteries. This buildup narrows the arteries, making it harder for blood to flow through. If a blood clot forms it can stop the blood flow, causing either a heart attack or stroke. Here are some of the warning signs you should look for. Heart Attack Warning Signs: • Chest Discomfort - uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain. • Pain or discomfort in other areas of the upper body - the arms, back, neck, jaw, or stomach. • Shortness of breath - with or without chest discomfort. • Other signs - breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea, or lightheadedness. Stroke Warning Signs: Think F.A.S.T. • Face Drooping - Is one side of the face droopy or numb? • Arm Weakness - Is one arm weak or numb? • Speech Difficulty - Is speech slurred? Is the person unable to speak, or hard to understand? • Time to call 9-1-1 - Check the time, so you can tell when the symptoms first appeared. This isn’t meant to cause you anxiety or stress. My goal is simply to remind everyone, including myself, that these things happen and we all need to be aware of these signs just
in case. This doesn’t mean that you Arizona State, and over 25 years of should immediately change your health and fitness experience. She lifestyle if you think you might was most recently the Wellness be at risk. You can make gradual Coach at Freescale before joining changes each day, and our Travis County family. work towards a heart I’m interested to see how healthy lifestyle. Becky will help Travis Even with all my duties County employees make as a County Commisbetter decisions to lead sioner, I make a habit happier, healthier lives. of working out at home Additionally, the monthearly each morning. ly Wellness Newsletter If I can’t do it in the includes helpful links morning, I try to get for employees to take in a short walk later in advantage of our onsite the day. According to Wellness Clinics. Our the American Journal Wellness Clinics provide Gerald Daugherty of Clinical Nutrition, a nutrition advice, as well 20-minute brisk walk burns between as health management when paired 90 to110 calories. That walk can be with our new Wellness Coach. Our when you walk the dog, or walking Wellness Newsletter also has montharound your neighborhood with the ly healthy recipes provided by our kids when you get off work. As your AgriLife Extension Service. These County Commissioner I encourage recipes are easy to make, and are you to be healthy, and enjoy your a great addition to any employee’s life to the fullest. cookbook. My health goals do not stop just Here are some tips from our with you. Here at Travis County Wellness team to help you reduce we are actively working towards the risk of heart disease: a healthy, heart happy work envi- • Eat a healthy diet - foods that are ronment. To reach this goal, our high in fiber and low in fat/sodium. Wellness team has put together a • Maintain a healthy weight - being strategy to engage our employees. overweight greatly increases your We started with National Wear risk for heart disease. Red Day on Friday, February 6th. • Exercise regularly - those 20 minAll employees were encouraged to ute walks make a difference! wear red, to raise awareness of Heart • Monitor your blood pressure Disease among their peers. check it on a regular basis. Our Human Resources depart- • Don’t smoke! ment publishes a monthly Wellness • Have your cholesterol checked – Newsletter designed to create and be sure to talk to your doctor about encourage healthy habits in County this test. employees. This month’s letter inWith these guidelines in mind, I troduced our new Wellness Coach, want to wish you a Happy, Heart Becky Howell. Becky has a Bachelor Healthy February, and good health of Science in Exercise Science from for the rest of your life.
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Traffic problems associated with the Fredericksburg Road is not a new phenomenon. According to Erelene the house was relocated in the1930s because of a road expansion project. “We had a wood stove and my mother cooked a meal while they moved it. She wasn’t going to let it stop her,” Erelene recalls. “One of my grandmothers had planted trees in the front and the highway department cut them down.” People mostly got around in wagons and on horseback well into the 1950s, and some folks even used horses into the sixties and seventies. Oak Hill was a farm community and the Pattons earned much of their living off the land. “It was all farms—good sized farms and dairy farms,” she said. “There was no other occupation I can think of.” The Pattons ran a store, the “old rock store” as it was known, in what is now the Austin Pizza Garden. The kids did a lot of milking to supply cream for the butter they made and sold. Everyone can see how traffic and growth have affected Oak Hill, but one change that Erelene welcomes is in the area of education. “I’m happy with the schools,” Erelene explains. “I had a hard time with the schools growing up. We had a one room school with eight or nine grades in it.” In other words, a person had to go into Austin to get their high school diploma and that is exactly what Erelene did. It must be noted that in the 1920s a girl often wasn’t afforded the luxury
of a complete education. Erelene wasn’t an ordinary girl, though. Oak Hill had a way of producing strong, self-sufficient women and Erelene fit the profile. For starters Erelene often played baseball with the boys while she attended the Oak Hill school. “If you were good enough the boys let you play,” she said. It appears that Erelene was always good enough. She was also determined, so she attended Austin High School at its old location at 15th Street and Rio Grande. “If I didn’t have relatives who lived in town, I would never had made it,” Erelene said. After Erelene’s younger brother started school at Austin High, they would drive their father’s Ford Model T into town instead of staying with relatives. “I graduated from Austin High in 1929, which is pretty good for a country schooled girl,” Erelene said. Most country girls would be content to stay on the farm after that, but not Erelene. She got a job at the Austin Gas Company. “When I worked a few months I bought a new Model A,” she said. “I thought I was the best on the highway.” Turns out Erelene might also have been Oak Hill’s original commuter. “Back then there was one other person working in Austin,” she said. “It was unheard of back then for Oak Hill people to work in Austin.” Even so, the commute took only ten minutes or so, even with the dirt road. There wasn’t exactly a lot of traffic in the 1930s. To top it off, she con-
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Folks would bring their horses to get shod at Joe Tanner’s blacksmith shop across the street and stop by the house for a visit. “Especially the ladies,” Erelene said. “They would leave their horses down there and come up here to talk to my mother, otherwise Joe would spend all his time talking to them.” tinued to make a contribution to the education of Oak Hill by dropping off as many as six students at Austin High on her way to work. Besides all that, there were still chores at home. “Most the time I got up in the morning and milked 10 or 12 cows before I went in to the office,” she said. Erelene worked at the gas company at the corner of 5th Street and Congress for 15 years, until after World War II when she met and married Buster and began a family. Erelene is still sharp and feisty and has many recollections of Oak Hill both before and after she married. There were many dances both rowdy and reserved. Baseball games were also a big form of entertainment and the ongoing grudge matches between Oak Hill and Manchaca were always exciting and often led to the exchange of more than insults. There were “World War I meetings” where the women of the community would meet upstairs at the rock store and knit socks for the doughboys fighting the Kaiser in Europe. Folks would bring their horses to get shod at Joe Tanner’s blacksmith shop (see story next page) across the street and stop by the house for a visit. “Especially the ladies,” Erelene said. “They would leave their horses down there and come up here to talk to my mother, otherwise Joe would spend all his time talking to them.”
Many visitors came by to use their telephone, which for a long time was the only one in the area west of Austin. As the years passed, Oak Hill grew until it became part of the Austin metroplex. “They came so gradually,” Erelene notes. And she can’t fault people for moving to the area she has loved for so long. “They didn’t want to get clear out in the woods, but they wanted to get out in the country,” she adds. Buster and Erelene remain active even into the new century. Buster was quite the cowboy in his day and is still remembered for his roping skill. (See the related story about the deersheep.) After nearly 60 years of marriage, the couple can still be found at the Patton house. Buster tends his three black sheep, two ewes and a ram, and works in his vegetable garden. For years he drilled water wells in the area and still gets calls from longtime customers who want him to check out wells he drilled decades ago. Erelene tends her flowers and likes to cook for her nieces and nephews. They have thought about moving west to where Buster’s family is from, but even with the growth all around them it doesn’t appear they will be going anywhere anytime soon. As James White related, “Buster says, ‘I can’t get that woman to leave.’”
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Patton Ranch and Joe Tanner were more than names on street signs... by Kevin Brown By now, most folks who live in Oak Hill know that Patton Ranch Road isn’t just a rustic name dreamt up by some developer. Likewise, the Joe Tanner of Joe Tanner Lane isn’t just the name of some faceless Department of Transportation engineer. The hidden, historic Oak Hill is right before the eyes of anyone who cares to search a bit. The original Patton Ranch began where Buster and Erelene Enochs lived, between the Austin Pizza Garden (the old “rock store”) and the old Oak Hill School on the Highway 290 frontage road. J.A. Patton, the patriarch, postmaster and unofficial mayor of the area that would become Oak Hill, donated the land where the old school is located. The Pattons moved “back from the frontier” in the 1870s after one of J. A. Patton’s brothers was killed
by Comanche Indians where the town of Blanco, Texas is now located. North of Oak Hill Elementary School, on private property, there still stands the house of James Murdock Patton, J.A. Patton’s father. The venerable James White, J.A. Patton’s great-grandson and owner of the Broken Spoke honky tonk, said the original, primitive cabin of James Murdock is hardly recognizable. In what was a common practice, “They just built a house around it,” he said. The FreeScale complex takes up a large part of what was once the Patton ranch. “The Pattons owned the land all the way down to Old Bee Caves Road and all the way back where Southwest Parkway is,” White said. “If you went down Patton Ranch Road, it was everything on the other side.” Besides farming, and sheep and cattle ranching, the Patton Ranch
was the center of many activities. The rock store was a community gathering spot and there was a horseracing track just to the west. White said when he was a youngster he assisted Archie Patton in running a “turkey shoot” along Williamson Creek. The contest involved shooting at paper targets across the creek as a test of marksmanship. White said his job was to retrieve the targets, which were sometimes totally destroyed when entrants used shotguns. Contestants entered for a nominal fee and the winners got a live turkey. “Once, all the turkeys got loose,” White recalls with a laugh. “We had a heck of a time herding those things up. After that we gave away frozen hams and frozen turkeys.” White estimates that the ranch was 500 to 800 acres total. It remained Continued on page 14
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J.A. Patton was born on Jan. 12,1853 in Lockhart, Texas and moved to Oak Hill Dec. 24, 1870, when the area was still known as Oatmanville. Though he was only 17 at the time, he was already a seasoned Texas Ranger. On Nov. 2, 1879, Mr. Patton embarked in the mercantile business, opening a general store. The Patton Store started out as a wooden frame building until it was replaced by one built of limestone in 1898. The rock work was done by German rock mason, Henry Marx. The rock was quarried from Patton’s land in Oak Hill. The architecture of the store was probably influenced by the German stone houses located in and around Johnson City and Fredricksburg, Blanco County and Gillespie County. The outside stairway was of wood and was replaced with a limestone stairway in the early 1900’s. J.A. Patton was also the postmaster of Oak Hill, and on Sep. 25, 1886 the “post office” was located inside his store. He served in this office for 24 years, until rural delivery began about 1910. Being passed down through the family, the “Patton Rock Store” was inherited by J.A. Patton’s great-grandson, James M. White in 1969. He is the fourth generation to own it. Mr. White and his wife, Annetta, applied for and received a Texas Historical Marker for the “Rock Store” in 1970. The Marker was dedicated by Governor Preston Smith, the first official business by any Governor in Oak Hill. The man who began with nothing, ended up being so successful that he owned 500 acres of land and enjoyed the respect of a whole community. In his old age, Mr. Patton and his daughter moved to Austin, and it was there that he died on July 11, 1944 at the age of 91. Today, many of his descendants still live in Oak Hill and his old rock store still stands. Special thanks to James & Annetta White for providing this information.
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Arts & Entertainment Ongoing Events
and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Once - Tuesday – Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2pm & 8pm; Sunday blantonmuseum.org Sundays at 1pm & 7pm Lexus Broadway Fridays in Austin at Texas Performing Arts Live Jazz Brunch - 10am-2pm. winner of eight Tony Awards includNutty Brown Cafe, 12225 Hwy. 290 Friday night Dance Club - w/ ing Best Musical and winner of the W., 78737. 301-4648. www.nutty- Western bands and a Pot Luck 2013 Grammy Award for Best Mubreak. 7:30pm-10pm at South brown.com. Austin Activity Center, 3911 sical Theater Album. Bass Concert Hall / 2350 Robert Dedman Drive Tessy Lou Williams & The Manchaca RD, Austin. $4.50. www.oncemusical.com Shotgun Stars - 4pm at Poodie’s New Events Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 Fri., & Sat. February 27 & 28 W., Spicewood. No cover. February 12 - February 22 Sunday/Fundays - Every first Sunday of the month the Neill- Misalliance by George Bernard Cochran House Museum will be Shaw - Thur. – Sat. 7:30pm Sun. open to the public for free from 1pm at 2pm. Featuring Equity guests - 4pm 2310 San Gabriel St. 512- Sheila Gordon, David Stahl and Michael Stuart. Directed by Robert 478-2335 nchmuseum.org Tolaro. Mary Moody Northen TheMondays atre St. Edward’s University 3001 S. Congress Ave. 512-448-8487 Charles Thibodeaux and the stedwards.edu/theatre. Austin Cajun Aces - 6:30pm at Evangeline Cafe, 8106 Brodie February 13 - February 28 Trailer Park Boys: Still Drunk, Lane. 282-2586. High & Unemployed Tour - doors Avenue Q - Thur., Fri., and Sat. @ 7pm, show @ 8pm Spend an Texas Songwriters Showcase - performances are at 7:30pmSun. evening with the boys as Bubbles 6:30pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, at 3pm. Winner of the TONY “Tri- tries to create a new career fo22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood. No ple Crown” for Best Musical, Best rhimself in the movie industry, Jucover. Score and Best Book, Avenue Q lian puts his latest money-making is part flesh, part felt, and packed scams into action and Ricky has an Wednesdays with heart. Ground Floor Theatre idea that can ‘change the world! the No Bad Days Open Mic - 7pm at located in the former US Foods Paramount 719 Congress Avenue Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 distribution center at 979 Spring- 512.472.5470 austintheatre.org Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood. dale Road. 1-800-838-3006 austinFriday, February 27 theatreproject.org 50+ Singles Dance- 7:30-9:45 Live Music. Senior Activity Center February 18 - March 8 29th & Lamar. 2874 Shoal Crest. www.fiftyplusdanceaustin.com Austin Shakespeare presents Tom Stoppard’s The Invention Trivia Night - Wednesdays at Wa- of Love - The Long Center 701 W. terloo Ice House, Southpark Mead- Riverside 512) 457-5100 thelongows, 9600 South I-35 Service Rd. center.org SB, Suite D-100. 512-301-1007. waterlooicehouse.com. February 19 - February 22 The Peacemakers - 10pm at Evangeline Cafe, 8106 Brodie Lane. 282-2586..
Thursdays Karaoke - at Boomerz Nightclub, 6148 Hwy 290 W.. 892-3373. Tony Harrisson / Dance Lessons / Jesse Dayton- 6pm - 9:15pm / 9:15pm at the Broken Spoke, 3201 S. Lamar. 442-6189. Open Mic with your host, Garett Endres. Starts at 9pm every Thursday 290 West Club 12013 W Hwy 290 “Thirsty Thursday” gatheringPoems and songs will be shared in a round robin, open mic atmosphere following the featured presentation. On the third Thursday of every month. Free. Food pantry donations are welcomed. 7pm at New Life Lutheran Church, 120 Frog Pond Lane in Dripping Springs. For more info call 858-2024.
Blue Man Group - Escape the ordinary and surround yourself in an explosion of comedy, music, and technology. Blue Man Group is a must-see. Dell Hall Long Center 701 W. Riverside 512) 457-5100 thelongcenter.org Friday, February 20 Roger McGuinn - doors @ 7pm, show @ 8pm Come out to hear this living legend in the intimate setting of the State Theatre. the Paramount 719 Congress Avenue 512.472.5470 austintheatre.org
Fantasy in February - 8pm Grab your favorite wand, staff, ring or cloak and come for a night of music dedicated to some of your favorite fantasy films. The Austin Symphony Orchestra will take you on a musical adventure with pieces from movies such as, “Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Chronicles of Narnia and many more! The Long Center 701 W. Riverside 512) 4575100 thelongcenter.org Sunday, March 1
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Vienna Boys Choir - 3pm Dell Hall Long Center 701 W. Riverside 512) 457-5100 thelongcenter.org Diana Ross - 7pm Bass Concert Hall / 2350 Robert Dedman Drive www.oncemusical.com
Third Thursday at The Blanton - free evening of art and activities. February 24 - March 1 5-9pm at Blanton Museum, Brazos
Fleetwood Mac On With the Show Tour - 8pm Frank Erwin Center 1701 Red River (512) 4717744 uterwincernter.com
Community Clubs & Events Ongoing Events Woodworkers Club of Austin - 7pm on the 1st Tuesday of the month in the training room at Seaton Hosp SW, on FM 1826 We are a non profit org. and make toys etc for charity. Call Bill at 512288-3252 Free South Austin Mystery Book Club - 7:30 pm on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, at the Sunset Valley Barnes & Noble on Brodie Ln. Our April 16th book is Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. If you have question email dschieck@yahoo.com. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Meeting - Bannockburn Baptist Church room 103 Every Wednesday, 7pm - 8:30pm Anne Slater 512-215-9719 for more info Free Conversation Cafe - Drop in for open, public dialogue on a variety of topics. Every third Saturday from 10:30am-11:30am at the Hampton Branch of the Austin Public Library at Oak Hill, 5125 Convict Hill Rd.. Free and open to the public. 512974-9900 / cityofaustin.org/library. Classes and meditation - with Western Buddhist nun, Gen Kelsang Ingchug. Every Sunday at 9:30am at Chittamani Buddhist Center, 1918 Bissel Lane, 78745. Everyone welcome. Spiritual counselling by appointment. Call for free brochure. 916-4444. meditationinaustin.org. Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter - Meets monthly on the second Sunday of the month at 2pm at the Recycled Reads (part of the Austin Library system) 5335 Burnet Rd www.hotxsinc.org. VFW Post 4443 meeting - Meets on first Tues. of month from 7-8:30pm at 7614 Thomas Springs Road in Oak Hill. Members and potential members are encouraged to be there around 6pm to gather for dinner. There is no cost. The Oak Hill Rotary Club - Meets at noon on the first three Mondays of the month at Mandola’s Italian Market, 4301 W. Wm. Cannon. More info at 288-8487 See www. oakhillrotary.org for other activities and events. Circle C Area Democrats - 6:308:30pm at Santa Rita in the Escarpment Village. Meets on second Mondays of month. For infor mation:circlecareademocrats.org. Toastmasters Groups - Build leadership and communication skills in a friendly, supportive atmosphere. Visitors welcome. Tejas Toastmasters: 288-7808/ tejastoastmasters.org. Meets every Mon. at 6 pm at IHOP, 1101 S.
Mopac. South Austin Toastmasters: meets first and third Tuesday at noon at ACC South Austin Campus, 1820 W. Stassney Lane. Phone 443-7110 or 288-7808. Oak Hill Toastmasters: meet every Thursday from 6:45-8pm at Western Hills Church of Christ, 6211 Parkwood Drive. Open to ages 18 & up. 956-494-4809 / oakhill.freetoasthost.biz for more info. Alzheimer’s Caregiver SupporGroup - 2nd Wednesday of the month at noon at Arveda Alzheimer’s Family Care, 11013 Signal Hill Drive, 78737. Anyone caring for a loved-one with dementia and needing support is invited. RSVP to 512-637-5400 and feel free to bring your own lunch. www.arvedacare.com. Senior Luncheon Program - Seniors (over 60) meet at 8656 Hwy. 71 W, Bldg A, next to JP bldg every Tues, Wed and Thurs from 10am2pm. Transportation available. Call 512-854-2138 for more info. Oak Hill Neighborhood Planning Contact Team - Meets fourth Wednesday of the month at the ACC Pinnacle Campus, 10th Floor Board Room. www.ohnpct.org. MOMS Club of Austin - Are you a stay at home mom looking for support, daytime activities and other moms like you? The MOMS® Club of SW Oaks/Oak Hill offers all that and more. You can find us on Meetup at www.meetup.com/ MOMS-Club-of-Austin-SW-Oaks/ Southwest Networking Group (SWING) - meets for breakfast at Waterloo Ice House, Slaughter Ln. & Escarpment Blvd., 9600 Escarpment Blvd.. 8-9:30am. Bring business cards. For more info call 482-9026 or 921-4901. Thursdays. South Austin AARP Chapter 2426 - Tom Bauer will talk about leadership styles and best practices, 1pm - 4pm at South Austin Senior Activity Center, 3911 Manchaca Rd. Free. Meets on third Wednesday of the month. For more info call Mary at 280-8661. www.southaustinaarp.org. OHBPA Meeting - (Oak Hill Business Professionals Association). Meets every first Thursday of the month from 11:30am-1pm at Mandola’s Italian Market, 4301 W. Wm. Cannon $15. ohbpa.org. Retired Austin Travelers - a group for people who love to travel. Regular meetings are the second Wednesday of odd-numbered months, from 1:00 to 3pm in the Oak Hill Library at 5124 Convict Hill Rd ratsonline.org. Creative Arts Society - Meets on first Wed. of month (except Jan.,July, Aug.) at ACC Pinnacle,
10th floor, faculty lounge. 6pm networking. 7pm program. All artists and art enthusiasts are welcome. creativeartssociety.org 288-0574. Saturday South Austin Lions Club - Meets every second and fourth Thursday 6pm – 7pm Premier High School at Travis 1211 E. Oltorf On the campus of Travis High School, follow Premier sign as you enter driveway, veer right. http://www.e-clubhouse.org/sites/ austin_south Senior Safari Adventures - Tues. - Fri. 9:30am - 11am Austin Zoo 10808 Rawhide Trail Call 512-2885031 or email audrey.austinzoo@ yahoo.com.
New Events February 19 - February 22 Quiltcon - 10am - 6pm More than 100 exhibitors and vendors will host demonstrations, designer and author appearances, as well as an unparrelled shopping experience for sewists and textile crafters. Austin Convention Center, 500 E Cesar Chavez St. (503) 8479418 register@themodernquiltguild.com Saturday, February 21 Austin Herb Society Annual Seminar - 9:30am - Noon “Fermentation with an Herbal Twist” Attendees will enjoy demonstrations of the various fermentation methods as well as samples and recipes for Carrots and Cauliflower Pickles with Herbs; Fennel, Radish and Apple Salad; Fermented Green Machine Soda; and Grapefruit Mexican Mint Marigold Shrub. Light refreshments will also be provided. $25 Zilker Botanical Garden 2220 Barton Springs Rd (512) 971-8222 austinherbsociety.org “Antique Roses – The Ultimate Landscape Plant.” - 10am Mike Shoup Come learn from the original Texas rose rustler, the founder and owner of Texas’ premier supplier of roses, and get your copy of Empress of the Garden signed by the author. The Natural Gardener 8648 Old Bee Caves Rd 512-2886113 naturalgardeneraustin.com Friday, February 27 11th annual People’s Gallery exhibition - 6pm - 9pm. The public is invited to an opening reception to meet the artists and view artworks throughout the first three floors of City Hall. The event will feature music and light refreshments. Sponsored by the The City of Austin Economic Development Department. Austin City Hall, 301 W. 2nd Street www.austincreates. com.
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Outdoors & Fitness Ongoing Events Farmer’s Market at Sunset Valley - Locally grown fresh produce at Tony Burger Center, 3200 Jones Rd. Saturdays from 9am-1pm. www.sfcfarmersmarket.org. Free Introduction to Dance Class - for adults and teens. Every Saturday at 11am at Tapestry Dance Company & Academy, Western Trails Blvd.,tapestry.org. Docent Tours of AMOA - Each Saturday and Sunday 1pm Docent-led tours of the recently restored 1916 Driscoll Villa, the intimate art exhibition Laguna Gloria Grounded and the historic gardens overlooking Lake Austin. at Austin Museum of Art, 823 Congress Ave. 512-495-9224 www.amoa.org. Texas Outdoor Women’s Network - Open to women of all ages interested in outdoor activities. fishing, kayaking, camping, hiking and more! No experience required. Free monthly meetings on fourth Tuesday of each month at 6pm at the LCRA Red Bud Complex, 3601 Lake Austin Blvd. . www.townaustin.org. Hill Country Outdoors- “Austin’s Most Active Outdoor, Sport
an Social Club” Specializing in adventure with outdoor events such as hiking, camping, biking, road trips and rafting. hillcountryoutdoors.com. Westcave Preserve public weekend tours- Sats. and Sundays, 10am., noon, 2pm & 4, $5 adult/$2 child/$15 family. One mile hike into the canyon & back. Kids welcome w/ adult. No pets. For more info call (830)825-3442 westcave.org . Guided Hikes - Second Sat. & second Sun. of each month at 9am at Bright Leaf Natural Area, 4400 Crestway Dr., Hikes are usually 4 miles long and last about 2 hours. Wear sturdy shoes and bring your own water. brightleaf.org Boot Camp Workout - At 9am every Saturday, our expert coaches will lead you through a muscle toning, fat burning, FREE 45 minute boot camp class! Bring your ten closest friends and jump start your weekend. Mills Elementary School 1-877-801-8171, extension 710 Nature Hike at McKinney State Falls - Free interpretive hikes to discover the diverse range of flora and fauna that can be seen at McKinney Falls. Hikes are offered the 2nd & 4th Saturday of each
month starting at 10am from the Smith Visitors Center. Wear comfortable shoes, a hat, and bring water. Hikes last approximately 1.5 hours. Info contact: jeanneffia@ gmail.com Sunday, December 7
New Events February 12, 19, 23 & 26 Senior softball league - Kicking off 10th season. Ages 55& up. Practice and registration //Ray Hill ph: 903-240-7278 or Jack Kelly 512-301-1478//. Krieg complex practice February 12/19/23/26. Call for weather updates. Shirts and caps included with each team. Saturday, February 21 Enchanted Rock Star Festival - 12pm - 10pm A Dark Night Sky full of big bright stars is important here in the Hill Country, just like cleanrivers, scenic vistas andnatural landscapes. Little by little, lightby-light, the magical mystery of the big Texas night sky is diminishing. Join usas we celebrate Enchanted Rock State Natural Areas International Dark Sky Park designation and its committment to keeping its skies dark and stars bright for all to enjoy - now and in the future.
Arts & Entertainment cont. New Events
Thibodeaux’s Cajun Trio - 6pm The Nutty Brown Cafe 12225 Highway 290 West 512.301.4648 nuttybrown.com
Thursday, February 19 Lissa Hattersley’s Trip Trio - 7pm Evangeline Cafe 8106 Brodie Lane (512) 282-2586 evangelinecafe.com Ruben V - 10pm Strange Brew 5326 Manchaca Rd 512-8287636 strangebrewloungeside. com The Lucky Strikes - 8pm Satellite Bistro & Bar 5900 Slaughter 288-9994 satellitebistroandbar. com Clay McClinton - 7pm Johnson - 8:30pm Huck Johnson & The Jack Knives - 10:30pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W. 512-264-0318 poodies.net The Derailers - 9:30pm Broken Spoke 3201 S. Lamar(512) 442-6189 or (512) 444-5233 brokenspokeaustintx.com Friday, February 20
cock Barn. Both activities are included with regular Zoo admission. 10808 Rawhide Trail, For additional information, call 512-288-1490 or visit www.austinzoo.org.
Second Saturdays are for Families - $7 per family; $5 Member families. Noon-4pm at Austin Museum of Art, 823 Congress Ave. Please RSVP to akichorowsky@ New Events amoa.org to give an idea of materials needed. 512-495-9224 / www. January 28 through March 1 amoa.org. At Austin Children’s Museum: Community Night - Come out and play EVERY Wednesday night at 5pm and enjoy exhibits, storytime and a variety of hands-on activities. Themed stories, songs,d activities. Tuesday - Saturday: 11am, 1pm & 3pm. Baby Bloomers- Every Mon.. For kids 3 & under & their caregivers. Storytimes 9:30 & 11am; Singa-long 10:30am at Austin Children’s Museum, 201 Colorado St.. 4722499 / ausinkids.org. Storytime - Tuesdays & Wednesdays at the Hampton Library, 5125 Convict Hill Rd. Toddlers Fridays at 11am, . 892-6680. wiredforyouth.co Austin Zoo & Animal Sanctuary - Join us in making Animal Enrichment (toys for animals) every Monday and Wednesday at 11:30am in the Picnic Grove and Story Time on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:15am and 1:15pm in the Pea-
January 31 through March 1 Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote - Sat., 11am, Sun., 2pm Pancho Rabbit meets danger at every stage of his journey to find his missing Papá, but the greatest danger of all is his untrustworthy guide. Kids will be inspired and cautioned by this resonant and powerful story.
kidsActing Studio Brings Award Winning Musical RENT - show times vary This full-scale musical production, directed by kidsActing founder Dede Clark, will feature students from around Austin and Central Texas. Center Stage Texas 2826 Real Street http://www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/72077 February 28 - March 22 Performance Children’s Series Sleeping Beauty - Sat at 10am; Sun at 2pm 10am performance on March 3 & 26 Emily Ann Theater and Garden 1101 FM 2325 Wimberley 512-847-6969
Michael Myers - 9pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W. 512-264-0318 poodies.net $7 Chad Alan - 7pm The Nutty Brown Cafe 12225 Highway 290 West 512.301.4648 nuttybrown. com The Derailers - 9:30pm Broken Spoke 3201 S. Lamar(512) 442-6189 or (512) 444-5233 brokenspokeaustintx.com Sunday, February 22 Sunday Gospel Brunch with the Purgatory Players - 11am 1pm at Strange Brew 5326 Manchaca Rd 512-828-7636 strangebrewloungeside.com
Funky Shrine of Mad Jackson - 10pm Strange Brew 5326 Manchaca Rd 512-828-7636 strangebrewloungeside.com Tuesday, February 24 George Carver Trio - 8pm Satellite Bistro & Bar 5900 Slaughter 288-9994 satellitebistroandbar. com LeMasters & Greer with FoxHarrell - 8pm Bad Rodeo 10:30pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W. 512-2640318 poodies.net
Peter and the Starcatcher - This pirate story tells what happened before a young orphan became the boy who never grew up—the boy we know as Peter Pan. Topfer Theater Zach Theater 202 S.Lamar 512-476-0541 zachtheater.com
George Carver Trio - 8pm Satellite Bistro & Bar 5900 Slaughter Lane #400 512-288-9994 satellitebistroandbar.com
Monday, February 23
Live music and imaginative scenes fill the Scottish Rite Theater stage. 207 W 18th St. Free parking immediately to the east, at 18th & Colorado. February 20 - March 8
Saturday, February 21
Java Jazz at the Brunch Buffet - 10am - 2pm The Nutty Brown Cafe 12225 Highway 290 West 512.301.4648 nuttybrown.com
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Jerry Kirk - 6pm Tommy Elskes - 8:30pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W. 512-2640318 poodies.net Dime Store Poets - 7pm Evangeline Cafe 8106 Brodie Lane (512) 282-2586 evangelinecafe.com Thursday, February 26
Murali Coryell - 10pm Evangeline Cafe 8106 Brodie Lane (512) 282-2586 evangelinecafe.com
Amber Lucille - 6pm Huck Johnson & The Jack Knives 10:30pm Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 22308 Hwy. 71 W. 512-2640318 poodies.net
Lone Star Swing - 6:30pm Central Market Westgate 4477 S. Lamar Blvd. 512-899-4300 centralmarket.com
Mente Clara - 7:30pm Satellite Bistro & Bar 5900 Slaughter 2889994 satellitebistroandbar.com
Shawn Nelson Band - 7pm FREE music friday’s Hill’s Cafe 4700 South Congress 512-8519300 hillscafe.com
Jesse Dayton - 9pm Broken Spoke 3201 S. Lamar(512) 4426189 or (512) 444-5233 brokenspokeaustintx.com
Ray Prim Band - 9:30pm Strange Brew 5326 Manchaca Rd 512828-7636 strangebrewloungeside.com
T Jarrod Bonta - 7pm Evangeline Cafe 8106 Brodie Lane (512) 2822586 evangelinecafe.com
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Patton Ranch and Joe Tanner were more than names on street signs... Continued from p. 11 whole until after Archie Patton died, and in the early 1980s the ranch was split up and parts of it sold. As substantial as it had been, the Patton ranch hadn’t even been the largest in the area. That designation would belong to the Rob Roy ranch. It lay beyond the Patton ranch and extended all the way to what is now the growth corridor in northwest Austin. If the Patton family was the heart of Oak Hill, it was the individual characters that made up the soul of the community. Some of those people, like Joe Tanner, are memorable for their individuality. Joe Tanner the elder and Joe Tanner the younger were both blacksmiths who worked out of a shop that occupied the corner of the street that bears their name. If it were still
standing, the Tanner blacksmith shop, according to Erelene Enochs, who grew up across the road, would be located in the median of Highway 290. The Tanner residence was a little further along what is now Joe Tanner Lane. The stories about the Tanners don’t always distinguish between the two Joes, but most people remember the Joe Tanner who, assisted by a cane, could be found walking all over the area and was a visible character of Oak Hill until the 1970s. The bearded, stooped and slightly scruffy Tanner had the best garden around, according to many who knew him. “He was working in the garden all the time, throwing out rocks, so he always had dirt on him,” James White said. “There were plenty of rocks in Oak Hill to get out of a garden.”
In the 1930s, when Tanners closed for the night, a bootlegger would appear to sell his wares behind the shop. The Tanner family had nothing to do with the illegal trade, but their shop was in a convenient location and the back was hidden from the road. Also, around this period, local pranksters managed to put a wagon on the roof of the shop. Before his fame as a gardener, Tanner was thought to be the most skillful blacksmith in the hill country, even if he were slightly eccentric. “One of the best horse-shoers there ever was,” Buster Enoch said. Tanner seemed to be a person that appreciated modern technology but never quite grasped its workings. “When he got a radio, he played it loud enough for everyone in Oak Hill to hear it,” Erelene Enochs said. “One time he heard a piece of music
“When he got a radio, he played it loud enough for everyone in Oak Hill to hear it. One time he heard a piece of music he wanted someone to hear so he turned off the radio to save it.” - Erelene Enochs he wanted someone to hear so he turned off the radio to save it.” Erelene also recalls the time Tanner got a new Ford touring car and put it up on jacks so he wouldn’t wear out the tires. “He was kind of the village character,” Erelene said. “He had peculiar ideas, but everyone thought a lot of him. You had to like him. He’d do anything for you.” That sums up a lot about the people of old Oak Hill. From the Pattons to the Tanners, they cover the spectrum. But that is what always made Oak Hill unique. - this article first appeared in the 2001 Oak Hill Gazette history issue.
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St. Michael’s football standout Jameson Houston signs with Baylor For the past four years, the St. Michael’s community has been cheering on Jameson Houston to new records on the gridiron—not simply to score touchdowns and win the game at hand, but as a symbol of all that is admirable in the student-athlete. Voted overwhelmingly as this year’s Homecoming King, Jameson is one of the most liked and respected students on campus. He is known for his hard work and sportsmanship on the athletic field and his passion for doing well in the classroom. For these reasons, and for the joy of watching an athlete-student succeed, the St. Michael’s community gave its largest collective cheer when Jameson signed with Baylor University on February 4 to play Division I football next year. Jameson has been a standout football player since he became a Crusader as a freshman four years ago. Since that time, he has played a key role in continuing the tradition of winning that we have come to enjoy over the past seven years. Jameson played a variety of positions at St.
Michael’s, including running back, wide receiver, and defensive back, and he made huge contributions to the special teams as a kick returner. During his time with the Crusaders, he received many accolades: he was named to the All-District Team three times and the All-State Team twice. He has also won numerous team awards, including the Coaches Award, Offensive and Defensive MVP (2013), and Special Teams MVP (2014). His talent and skill are undeniable and easily identified upon watching him play, but all can agree that his positive attitude off the field and willingness to help his teammates are what make him a great player. Jameson burst onto the recruiting scene in his junior year after leading the Crusaders to a sixth consecutive district title. Recruiters nationwide expressed much interest in him, but it was Baylor University that ultimately was able to seal the deal. “I just felt more comfortable with the people at Baylor. It’s close enough so my family can see me play, and I think it’s a really good fit for me,”
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Gazette Sports: Austin • Bowie • Crockett Bowie 58, Pflugerville 45
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Bowie girls get a big playoff victory by Patrick Olson Following an erratic first half, Bowie girls’ basketball players Lydia Baxter, Kennedy Godsey and Kianna Ray formed a defensive wall in the paint helping the Lady Dawgs defeat Pflugerville Tuesday night in first round playoff action. “I think it was sloppier than we like to play,” Bowie coach Vickie Benson said afterward. “Pflugerville plays real scrappy defense. In the second half, we starting calming down and let the game come to us.” Ray provided an impressive block in the first quarter and guard Savannah Ralph nailed a three-pointer. The Lady Panthers fouled Ray on a Bowie fast break and the junior guard promptly drained both shots from the charity stripe to knot the
contest 11-11 at the end of the first period. Pflugerville fought intensely inside for a rebound and subsequent basket before scoring on a fast break after a Bowie turnover. Benson then called a time out, and then point guard Desiree Lampkin drew a foul on a drive and converted two free throws, cutting the Pflugerville lead to 20-18. Ralph showcased her shooting skills again from the perimeter with a three-pointer and followed the deep shot with an interior basket to put Bowie on top 25-22 at halftime. The Lady Dawgs denied Pflugerville clean shots underneath the rim and set the tone in the third quarter. Additional offensive production from the three point line by Ralph combined with the physical scoring
presence of Baxter down low ignited Bowie. Baxter’s single dribble and baseline layup established a double-digit 40-30 lead for Benson’s crew. Bowie led 42-32 entering the fourth quarter and Ray extended the advantage with a three-pointer. Setting up on the three-point line, Ralph threw a fast ball of a pass to Lampkin for an easy layup. Ralph then found Ray on an identical play and Bowie began to assert its control of the contest. A free throw by Ralph capped the scoring for the Lady Dawgs. Bowie now faces The Woodlands in the second round Thursday night in Hearne. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
“Alexis Harris is one of the best players I’ve coached,” said Austin High girls’ basketball coach Tricia Johnson. “She led our team in steals, rebounds and charges. She is an unselfish player who loves this game.” Following graduation in June, Alexis hopes to continue her hoops career collegiately. Born in Miami, Alexis moved to Austin at an early age and attended Palm Elementary School before progressing to Small Middle School where she also ran track. Upon arriving at Austin High, she focused on basketball and improved her skill on the court while competing for the select team CenTex Starzz coached by Billy James. “He wants me to be the best player I can be,” Harris said of James. Economics instructor Ms. Harris is Alexis’ favorite teacher at Austin High. “She went to one of our games and always brags about Lexi (Evans) and I,” the senior competitor said. “She supports us.” Victories over Akins earlier in the season and Anderson on Senior Night rank as the best games for the Lady Maroons according to Alexis. “Against Akins, coach (Johnson) said we hadn’t beaten
Alexis Harris, Austin High them on their floor in a while and we did,” Harris noted. “Being a student athlete is a lot of work,” Harris added when asked if she had advice for younger pupils aspiring to compete in high school varsity sports. “You have to keep up with your grades. Grades always come first.” Alexis plans to study kinesiology at her next level of education.
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Crockett wrestlers win district and advance to Regionals tournament by Patrick Olson Led by coach Willis Darrell Brock, the Crockett wrestling team won district and competed in a regional tournament last Friday and Saturday at the Delco Center. The boys’ team finished fifth among 32 teams and sent four wrestlers to the state tournament. On the female side, Crockett will be represented at the state meet by Melissa Lopez, and the brown and gold girls’ contingent finished in sixteenth place.
Sevon Green secured a second place finish and qualified for the state event at 106 lbs. In the 132 lb. class, Jon Gonzales moved forward to the state meet joining third place finishers Mark Sanchez and Seth Riojas in the 160 and 195 lb. classes respectively. The UIL state wrestling meet is scheduled for Friday, February 20th and Saturday, February 21st in Garland and the Culwell Center on 4999 Naaman Forest Blvd.
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St. Michael’s swimmers attacked from the very first event, breaking three State Records.
St. Michael’s boys swim team wins State, girls finish 10th The Crusaders first year in Division 2 ended in exciting fashion at this year’s State Championship in San Antonio. The familiar Josh Davis venue is a very fast pool, and this past Friday afternoon, the St. Michael’s swimmers attacked from the very first event, breaking three State Records on their way to the men’s victory, and achieving a high percentage of best times for all. Below is a list of the individual highlights from this weekend’s event. 200 Medley Relay Trey Kilbride, Ted Beiter, Hunter Dersch, Michael Martinez - 1:42.14 - a NEW STATE RECORD!
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Michael Martinez – 4th Place, :49.58
200 Individual Medley Liz Hammel – 8th Place, 2:43.52 Hunter Dersch – 4th Place, 2:06.30 Zach Browne – 11th Place, 2:29.60
500 Freestyle Kathleen Shea – 5th Place, 6:00.10 Madison McKenzie’s - 11th Place, 6:49.13 Trey Kilbride – 1st Place, 4:51.80 Ted Beiter’s - 6th Place, 5:29.81
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100 Freestyle Hunter Dersch – 3rd Place, :49.46
50 Freestyle Captain Julia McElhenny - 13th Place, :28.39 Gianna Lasita – 15th Place, :28.92 Liz Hammel – 16th Place, :29.22 Dominic McCarthy – 16th, :25.88 100 Butterfly Kathleen Shea – 7th Place, 1:07.22 Gianna Lasita – 12th Place, 1:12.04
200 Freestyle Relay Julia McElhenny, Karla Connell, Liz Hammel and Gianna Lasita – 7th Place, 1:54.33 Dominic McCarthy, Alan Kane, Zach Browne, and Connor McKenzie - 12th Place 100 Backstroke Hailee Browne – 12th Place, 1:16.84 Continued on page 26
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the top left corner, but the Anderson goalie made a tremendous save bouncing the ball back into the penalty box. Walls then carefully placed the ball in the bottom corner for the elated Maroons. Goalie William Peterman performed admirably for
Austin High limiting the Trojans to two goals. Dane Lundin, Harrison Melder, Justin Muller and Sam Carr form the fullback line for the Maroons. Midfielders for Austin High included Byckovski, Garni, Walls, Damian Castillo and Galvan. Cody
Lee brings consistent offense at the forward spot with a shifty attacking style and a high soccer IQ. Medina brings energy off the bench while Davison Thompson and Otilio Guerrero give Austin High quality depth. The Maroons visit Westlake on Saturday with action at 10:45 a.m.
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Religious Services ANGLICAN
St. Philip’s Anglican Church 1408 W. 9th St, Austin. 78703 Fr. Gary Francis, Vicar Holy Communion 1928 Book of Common Prayer Sunday 11:00 am gkfrancis@suddenlink.net Traditional Anglican Worship
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
New Life Assembly of God 7612 Cooper Lane, Austin. 78745 (Between Wm. Cannon and Dittmar) Call: (512) 445-5433 Pastor: Charlie Hilburn Sunday Services: Sunday School 9:30am; Worship & Children’s Church 10:30am; Prayer and Worship Service 6pm Wednesday Services: 7:00pm Kidtastic! * Missio Dei Youth Ministry * Adult Class newlifeaustin@agchurches.org www.newlifeaustin.org connecting...growing...reaching
BAPTIST
Bee Cave Baptist Church 13222 Hwy. 71W (at Hwy. 620) (512) 263-5058 Pastor: Rev. Jim Roquemore Services: Sun. 10:45am & 6:30pm, Sunday School 9:30am Children’s church available Sun. am Wed. Prayer & Bible Study 7 pm First Baptist Church of Oak Hill 6907 Convict Hill Rd 78749 512) 288-7570 Pastor: Rob Satterfield Services: Sun. 10:50am & 6:00pm Bible Study Sun. 9:30am Wednesday Prayer 6:45pm www.fbcoakhill.org Oak Hill Primitive Baptist Church 11408 Camp Ben McCulloch Rd. Pastors: Richard Halbgewachs and mark Huffman Services: Sunday Prayer 9:00 am, Coffee Fellowship 9:30 am, Worship 10:30 am, Wednesday 7:00 pm www.oakhillpbc.org
BAUTISTA
Iglesia Bautista Oak Hill 6907 Convict Hill Rd., 78749 Cell(512)828-9545/Home(512)719-4366 Pastor Leonel Flores Sr. Servicios Bilingües- Domingo:9:45 am- Escuela Dominical, 11 amAdoración & Mensaje; Miércoles:7:00 pm, Estudio Bíblico & Oración Música Tradicional y Contemporánea ¡Visitarnos!
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a.m.-12:45 p.m. Youth Group, Sundays 4-6 p.m. Bible Study, Thursdays 9:30-11 a.m.
Sitagu Buddha Vihara 9001 Honeycomb Dr. 78737 (4 miles west of the “Y”). We are a monastery, meditation center, community center, education center and home of a beautiful Burmese pagoda. Daily activities. sitagu.org/austin/, (512)301-3968 sitaguvihara@yahoo.com.
St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church 8724 Travis Hills Dr. 78735 (between SW Parkway & Old Bee Caves) (512) 288-0128 www.stchristopher.net Rector: The Rev. Bo Townsend Services: Holy Communion at 10am Sundays; Children’s Chapel at 10 am Christian Ed. 9am (Sept. 10-May 20) Seeking God’s Truth, Sharing God’s Love
St. Catherine of Siena 4800 Convict Hill Rd. 78749 892-2420 Pastor Rev. Patrick Coakley Weekend Masses: Sat. 5pm, Sun 8:30am, 10:30am, 12:15pm, 5pm Weekday Masses: Mon-Fri. 12noon, Sat. 9am, Tues & 1st Fri 7pm
Shree Raseshwari Radha Rani Temple 400 Barsana Road, Austin, TX 78737 512-288-7180 Visiting Hours: 9:00 am - 9:00 pm www.radhamadhavdham.org
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St. Alban’s Episcopal Church 11819 So. IH-35 (exit #223, FM 1327; take north access road 1.1 mile) 282-5631 www.stalbansaustin.org Seeking the transformation of lives through sharing God’s love and grace Rector: The Rev. Margaret Waters Services: 9 a.m. Come & See! (Blended worship w/ sermon & Holy Eucharist) 10:00 a.m. Coffee Hour 10:15 a.m. Christian Formation for All Ages 11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II 12:45 p.m. Coffee Hour Children’s Chapel at both services, and professional nursery from 8:45
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Abiding Love Lutheran Church “Sharing God’s Love” 7210 Brush Country, 78749 (512)892-4040 Sr. Pastor:Lynnae Sorensen Assoc. Pastor: Brad Highum Sunday Services: 8:30am and 11am Education Hour: 9:45 am (for all ages) Children’s Center 892-2777 Director: Debbie Tonne Full & PT programs M-F, 7am-6pm Food Pantry- Mondays 1:30-3:30pm info@abidinglove.org www.abidinglove.org Bethany Lutheran Church “Where Jesus Meets His Friends” 3701 W. Slaughter (next to Bowie) 292-8778 email: info@blcms.org Pastor: Rev. William B. Knippa Assoc. Pastor: Rev. Martin Danner Sun. Worship Services: 8am (Trad.) 9:30 & 11:00 am (Blended Traditional & Contemporary Music) 6:00 p.m. (Contemporary Praise) Sunday School & Bible Study: 9:30am Nursery During Services Bethany Preschool, Mon-Thurs. www.blcms.org Holy Cross Lutheran Church 4622 S. Lamar 892-0516 Rev. Magdalene Holm-Roesler, Pastor Services: 10:00 am Sunday Study Hour: 9:00 am Sunday Fellowship & Coffee after services Adult and Children’s Sun. School www.hclcaustin.org You’re always welcome here.
Mt. Olive Lutheran Church 10408 Hwy 290 West (4 miles from the “Y” in Oak Hill) 512-288-2370 info@ConnectwithJesus.org www.Mt.OliveAustin.org Pastors: Paul Meyer and Ben Braun Services: 8 am traditional and 10:30 am contemporary. Education Hour: 9:15-10:15 am Preschool: 18 months to Pre-K, Preschool Phone: 512-288-2330 Full and part-time hours. Risen Savior Lutheran Church-WELS 2811 Aftonshire Way 78748 280-8282 Pastor Dan Schmidt Services: Sunday Worship— 9:30am Sunday School/Bible Classes for all ages, Sunday— 11:00am¡ www.risensavioraustin.net
METHODIST
Oak Hill United Methodist Church 7815 Hwy. 290 W. 78736 288-3836 Rev. Jim Roberts, Rev. Pam Sheffield, and Rev. Katy Fitzhugh Services: Sunday 8:45, 10 & 11:15am (Interpreted for the deaf at the 10 and 11:15am services) Wednesday ReCharge service 6:15pm Sunday School: 10 & 11:15am Children’s Sunday School: 8:45, 10 & 11:15am Youth group: 5pm www.oakhillumc.org open hearts, open minds, open doors! Manchaca United Methodist Church Open hearts, Open minds, Open doors! 1011 FM 1626 (SE corner of FM 1626 & Manchaca Rd) www.ManchacaUMC.org; office@ ManchacaUMC.org; 512.282.7274 Pastors: Rev. Laura Adam, Rev. Tracey Beadle Sunday Schedule: 8:30 am – Traditional Worship with Communion in the Sanctuary. 9:45 am - Sunday School; adult, youth and children. 11:00 am - Traditional Worship and Hymns in the Sanctuary. 11 am - Life on the Road - Casual Praise Service in the Family Life Center 5 pm - High School & Middle School youth programs Wednesday Worship: 6:00 am Individual Prayer and Meditation with Communion
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Austin Ridge Southwest 7416 Hwy 71 W, 78735 512-288-8000 Worship services: 9:15 and 11:00 Children’s Ministry: 9:15 and 11:00 Middle/High School 6 pm www.austinridge.org
Hope in the City 4407 Monterey Oaks Blvd, 78749 Phone; 512-892-4673 Senior Pastor: Britt Tucker Sun. Service 10:15 am www.hopeinthecity.org We value loving God, loving one another and loving Austin and the Nations. LifeAustin 8901 W Hwy 71 78735 Phone: 512-220-6383 Lead Pastor: Randy Phillips Sun. Services: 8:30, 10:00 & 11:30 am Wed Services: 7 pm Life University, 7 pm Student Life LifeAustin is a Bible Church - a cosmopolitan community of healing and hope. We are all about connecting people to Christ and to each other. Unity Church of Austin 5501Hwy 290 West, 78735 (512) 892-3000 unity@unitychurchaustin.org Minister: Rev. Anna Shouse Service 11:00 pm “Our God is love,our race is human and our religion is oneness.” www.unitychurchaustin.org
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Austin History Center photo
This is an actual photo taken around 1885 of convicts laboring on what is now Convict Hill in Oak Hill. They slept in a cave that was destroyed when a shopping center was built at 290 and Wm. Cannon.
Few Americans these days have any sense of place. We pick up and move to the latest hot spot for jobs with scarcely a thought, and each new place has the same identical houses, street signs, franchise restaurants, and big box stores. If we take the family to visit Grandma over the holidays we’re more likely to visit a soulless condo in an assisted living community than a white frame farmhouse house straight out of Currier and Ives. And names mean nothing to us either. We live in subdivisions with silly Merrie Olde English names like “Chesterfield Place” and “Huntington Wood” that are almost totally barren of trees and are landscaped with cacti and limestone boulders, or else in places with names like “The Villas at Deer Run Creek” or “Oakwood Knoll,” that refer not to existing landmarks and conditions so much as to what was bulldozed in order to make way for that housing development.
And with the passing of a sense of name and place we also lose our sense of what came before us—names have no real meaning, places are identical one to another, so it naturally follows that the history of an area is meaningless as well. We whip through an intersection and see a curious name on a sign—“Armstrong Prairie” or “Indian Point Community,” just to make up a couple examples. We never really stop to think that that obscure name on a sign might have some real history connected to it. The community of Oak Hill is an excellent example of a place with a history that is all too often ignored. One of the problems with Oak Hill is that it never actually incorporated, so its official boundary lines are a bit hazy. But according to the Oak Hill Association of Neighborhoods (http://www.ohan.org), the Oak Hill area consists of the “neighborhoods bordering Brodie Lane down to the Travis/Hays County line, following Continued on next page
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A condensed history of the Oak Hill area Continued from p. 23 the county line on the south up to Highway 290 West, and then neighborhoods bordering Circle Drive and Thomas Springs Road and finally along the Southwest Parkway.” This area includes the 78735, 78736, 78737, 78739, 78748, and 78749 zip codes and includes almost 100,000 people. So yeah, that’s hardly just a “wide spot in the road.” William Cannon (after whom the road is named) got a land grant in 1835 from the Mexican government. His land stretched from Williamson Creek to Slaughter Creek. Settlers began coming into the area shortly after the founding of the city of Austin and Travis County. The Oak Hill area was initially called “Live Oak Springs.” In 1846 William D. Glasscock brought his family and slaves from Mississippi, settling just north of Williamson Creek. Two years later, Glasscock sold some of his land to Norwegian immigrant John Ernest Mowinkle, and the community, as such, was born. There had been problems in the area with Comanche and Apache Indians back in the Spanish and Mexican days, but by the time the Anglos started moving in, the Indians in the Oak Hill area were pretty mellow. Indian expert Ken Headrick has
noted that up until the 18th Century there was about 78 Indian tribes in Central Texas alone. By the 19th Century there were only 22, and by the time the Glasscocks settled down there were no more than 200 and possibly as few as 30 individual Comanches in the area. When John Mowinkle settled in the area, he found some Comanches camped near his home, so he politely went out and explained to them that more white people would be moving there. The Comanche packed up and headed west, and John Mowinkle no doubt patted himself on the back for buying that “Norwegian-to-Comanche” dictionary at the duty-free store. The Indians that stayed around were friendly. They’d trade skins for sugar and salt and told the white people what foods could be grown in the area. The Indians tended to eat roots, acorns, cacti, and snails, (or to call them by their proper Comanche name, “escargot”). John Mowinkle had been an international businessman before poor health forced him to move to a warmer climate and the life of a farmer. Mowinkle was an intelligent man who spoke seven languages, had an extensive library, and kept up on things by reading the “Baltimore Sun,” the “Austin Gazette,” and, God help him, the “Congressional
Record.” He and his wife Mary lived until 1901. By 1856 local settlers had started a school in a log cabin. At the end of the Civil War, an attempt was made to rename the community “Shiloh,” after the famous battle, but neither that name nor the name “Live Oak” stuck, though “Oatmanville” did—for a few years, anyway. (B.F. Oatman was a major landowner in the area then.) An “Oak Hill” post office was established in 1870, but strangely enough, the town didn’t adopt that name until 1900.
By 1884 the town had four saloons, a store, and a population of about 75. Most of the locals dealt in cotton, wool, pecans, or animal hides. The population eventually reached 200 in 1904, six years before the post office was closed down. In 1865, Thomas Kincheon formed the community of Kincheonville. The residents were mostly black, but there were some Hispanics and Anglos living there as well. This farming community was located between what is now Paisano Trail, Davis Lane, Brodie Lane, and
Longview Road. Kincheon’s son, Thomas Kincheon II, successfully promoted a couple subdivisions of the community in the 1950s, before finally moving his family into East Austin in the 1960s. Also, not long after the end of the war, Oatmanville became the home to a number of poor settlers from Appalachia. These people largely kept to themselves, and occupied their time cutting cedar, building stone walls and fences, and manuContinued on page 26
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of the Oak Hill area Continued from p. 24 facturing charcoal and moonshine, thus earning the contemptuous nicknames “cedar choppers” and “charcoal burners” from their neighbors. (What? --“stone builders” wasn’t also considered an insult back then?!) Cedar was a profitable business for seventy years, as there was quite a market for cedar fence posts, railroad ties, charcoal, and firewood. Indeed, between 1870 and 1890 there were several “Cedar Wars” over who owned which cedar brakes. Oatmanville was home to a stand of pecan and live oak trees called “The Grove” or “The Beckett Grove,” located alongside Williamson Creek. This was traditionally the last stop for cattle drives heading through Austin, and farmers and ranchers would spend the night there on their way to and from Austin on buying and selling trips, so as to not have to shell out money for a hotel room. The Grove also proved a great site for 4th of July celebrations, picnics, and other community gatherings. In 1870, Texas Ranger and Lockhart native James Andrew Patton moved to Oatmanville. He had been an Indian fighter, but having tired of that, he wanted to try his hand at farming and shop keeping. He opened his store in Oatmanville in 1879, rebuilt it out of stone in 1898, and kept it open for over thirty years. The store eventually earned a State
Historical marker. The building has served as a Masonic lodge, a dance hall, offices, several restaurants, a saloon, and now houses a pizza parlor. Patton was the postmaster of Oak Hill, as well as its unofficial, unelected mayor, and a deputy sheriff. He was also the one who had the brainstorm that the name of the town (Oatmanville) should be changed to match the name of the post office (Oak Hill), because everyone’s mail was getting rerouted to a place called “Oatmeal.” That such a problem had remained unresolved for decades is beyond comprehension. Patton was naturally involved in the Oak Hill school system, donating land for the site of a new school building. After the Oak Hill post office closed in 1910, Patton moved into Austin, dying there in 1944 in his 91st year. He was buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, the land for which he had donated as well. In 1985 a new elementary school was opened in Oak Hill and was named in Patton’s honor. J.A. Patton was also the great-grandfather of James Morris White, owner and proprietor of the venerable Austin honky-tonk, “The Broken Spoke.” As it turns out, James White also had a great-great-grandfather named John Eaton Campbell who was the Travis County surveyor and surveyed Oak Hill during the Oatmanville days. (James White and his wife Annette have written “They Came to Texas,” a thick history of his family’s adventures.)
When the “Old Stone Capitol” in Austin burned down in 1881, plans were made to build a new capitol that somewhat resembled the one in Washington, D.C., but that had it own brand of Victorian swagger and flamboyance. A competition was held and Elijah E. Myers of Chicago was selected as architect. A Chicago firm also won the contracting bid, and was paid not in cash, but in three million acres of public land. This property spread over ten counties and became known as the XIT Ranch (the brand referring to “Ten in Texas”). The plan was to construct the new building from white limestone, quarried at Oatmanville. For the cost of $1000, W.K. Beckett leased 1000 acres of his land to be used as the quarry. A narrow-gauge spur railroad was built from the Beckett place to the Capitol grounds. This project promised great things for Oatmanville, and several businesses opened to serve those involved. But it became quickly apparent once the limestone got into town that it contained large deposits of pyrite or “fool’s gold,” which, if left exposed to the elements, would streak and leave any building constructed of it colored yellow. Not only that, but the stone was found to be much too soft to bear the weight of such a massive structure. And budget concerns became so acute it was decided that the state couldn’t afford to pay any more men 17? whopping cents an hour to work the quarry—free convict labor had to be utilized instead. This last move, coupled with Governor Ireland importing some stone cutters from Scotland, caused local union members, such as those of the International Association of Continued on page 29
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A condensed history of the Oak Hill area Continued from p. 26
Granite Cutters, to have a hissy fit and sue Capitol contractor Abner Taylor for labor violations. Also in 1885 a transient hired on to work at the Capitol for a dollar a day less than the stone cutters made. The man, called “Brock,” wasn’t a member of the union and refused to join. What’s worse, he did more work than the union cutters did and generally made them look bad. Brock was asked to leave, and when he refused to, the cutters went on the first labor strike in Texas history. Regardless of all this, black and white stripes were declared to be the “in” look in Oatmanville for Fall 1885, and 100 prisoners were transported to the little village, their ankles hobbled by heavy chains and iron balls, their every move watched by armed guards and trained dogs. By day they cut stone, by night they slept in a flimsy frame shelter. They were fed a ration of cornbread, bacon, and coffee. No doctor was available, and anyway, these poor slobs were considered expendable, right? Some men died on the site, while others tried to escape and were shot dead. Eventually a legend grew up
that these dead prisoners were buried under limestone cairns on what came be known as “Convict Hill.” In the 1980s when real estate developers got interested in that area, they found they had to confront this question head-on. We’ve all seen enough scary movies to know that bad things happen to people who build on abandoned burial grounds. Archaeologists, historians, and geologists were all brought out to see if they could literally find out where the bodies were buried. Soil tests and other methods concluded no one had been buried on Convict Hill, but a study of the historic record did offer another explanation to the mystery. Derricks had been employed to move and haul stone at the quarry. They had been secured by guy wires and heavy timbers. Since the soil was so rocky that the timbers could not be buried in the ground, they had to be stabilized by heavy piles of rocks. The timbers themselves were called “dead men,” so it’s easy to see how that spooky name, tomb-sized piles of stones, and notoriously cruel working conditions could form in the public mind this legend that convicts had been buried on
Oatmanville was home to a stand of pecan and live oak trees called “The Grove” or “The Beckett Grove,” located alongside Williamson Creek. The Grove also proved a great site for 4th of July celebrations, picnics, and other community gatherings, like the one in the undated photo above. Convict Hill. Anyway, after it was determined that the limestone from Oak Hill wouldn’t work, the powers
that be decided to construct the exterior of the Capitol from pink granite quarried at Marble Falls.
The limestone was reserved for interior work. Continued on next page
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A condensed history of the Oak Hill area Continued from p. 29
As for Convict Hill? Well, nature and looters reclaimed whatever was left after operations finally shut down in 1888. All that remains now is a sinkhole and two iron bars driven into the ground, where prisoners were tied up at night, or held in place and beaten during the day whenever they slacked off. In 1865, the log cabin “Shiloh School” was built to replace the old “Live Oak Springs” one, and that in turn was replaced in 1879 by a frame building on Williamson Creek. The Oak Hill Elementary School was opened in 1923, with additional rooms added in 1933, 1953, and 1958. The school was in the middle of a pasture and farm animals often blocked traffic to and from the building. The Oak Hill School and Cedar Valley School consolidated in 1953. In 1961 Oak Hill and nearby Manchaca joined forces to form a rural high school district, but it all got annexed by Austin ISD in 1967. In early days Oak Hill church congregations met in the school buildings, or outside under brush arbors when it got hot. Services were presided over by circuit riding preachers. The first Sunday School was held in
Peter Thompson’s blacksmith shop, with the attendees sitting on nail kegs. A Baptist Church was finally built in 1937, after failed attempts in 1889 and 1903, and many other churches have been built in the area since then. In 1935, Norwall Mowinkle, only surviving son of John Mowinkle, and his daughter Mary Mowinkle Johnson, formed the Oak Hill/ Cedar Valley Pioneer Association, which was dedicated to the idea of preserving the history and heritage of the two neighboring communities. Meetings were originally held yearly on the Mowinkle place, but after several moves now take place on James White’s ranch. Two or three pioneer families are honored at each meeting. Members get up and give oral histories of those families, people of the community who have died in the past year are memorialized, there’s a prayer, and then everything’s wrapped up with a meal and a general get-together. In the 1940s Archie Patton opened a dirt racetrack called “Oak Hill Downs.” At first plow horses, donkeys, and mules raced there, but later buggies and roadsters were brought in. The land was later sold to Motorola.
Between 1957 and 1977, Oak Hill was the site of a rodeo, held every weekend at a ring owned by Cecil and Maxine Hill. In fact a newspaper from the 1950s referred to Oak Hill as a “rodeo and horse racing site in southwestern Travis County.” The Oak Hill area has also been home to a variety of beer joints over the years: the Circleville Inn (now remodeled into the much tamer Circleville Country Club), Alexander’s (a barbeque place/gas station/ blues joint that’s been replaced by a Sonic), the Blue Goose, the Little Wheel, I.V.’s, the Moosehead Tavern (once a showcase for the Light Crust Doughboys and Ernest Tubb), and of course, the Broken Spoke (long may she reign). In 1983 the City of Austin started annexing parts of Oak Hill. This was not a big hit with many Oak Hill residents, because Austin failed to promptly live up to some of the promises it made to Oak Hill regarding various city services and other benefits. In 1985 the Oak Hill Association of Neighborhoods was formed. The areas of their purview include … “everything from radio towers, to libraries, pools, pipelines, parks, asphalt plants, roads, restrictive covenants and deed restrictions, city zoning, fund-raisers, signs, nuisances, crime, big-boxes and aquifers.” Clearly, though most of the physical landmarks of Oak Hill exist only in faded tintypes or the memories of old-timers, the spirit of this scrappy
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little community is still very much alive and vibrant. (Special thanks to the Handbook of Texas Online, the Oak Hill Association of Neighborhoods, the Austin History Center, and various writers for the Oak Hill Gazette and Austin
American Statesman, including Monica Leo, Betty MacNabb, Kevin Brown, Michael D. Brockway, and especially Rick Ruffin for his information-filled Oak Hill timeline, “A Symbol of Our Past,” without which this piece would’ve been impossible to put together.)
Earl Marx probably pretending to race at Oak Hill Downs.
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Old Oak Hill School —a history, and a hope Continued from p. 3 the early 1920s to construct a new school. J.A. Patton donated an acre of land to build Oak Hill Elementary School, which opened in 1923. Rooms were added to the school in 1933, 1953 and 1958. After 50 years, it was shuttered when a newer Oak Hill Elementary School opened in 1974 on nearby Patton Ranch Road. Even now, memories of the old school remain. Edith Hector Tyler told the Gazette, “My mom, Willie Mae Marx Hector and her oldest brother, Bennie Marx, were among some of the first children that attended the school. Mom’s youngest sister, Emma Lee Marx Johnson, and her future husband, Jimmy “Cotton” Johnson, attended the school at the same time.” It is fitting that the Marx children would attend that school. Their grandfather, Heinrich Marx, built the nearby Old Rock Store (now Austin Pizza Garden) for owner J.A. Patton in 1898. Cotton Johnson lived in the area that now encompasses the Oak Hill Post Office. Born in 1938, he remembers attending the old Oak Hill Elementary School from first through the seventh grade. Each class was made up of “about six or seven kids,” he recalled. Upon graduation, Cotton attended Fulmore Middle School. Emma Marx Johnson was a year behind Cotton, but didn’t attend Oak Hill Elementary until the 5th grade. Prior to that, she and her siblings attended the Cedar Valley School on Thomas Springs Road. She described the Cedar Valley School as tiny—just one room. She recalled, “Right before they closed the school they had built another room. I guess they didn’t have enough money to run it or something. Anyway, they had to close it. We were all bused to Oak Hill. At that time Oak Hill had three rooms, it was much, much larger. It was exciting to go to a bigger school.” The old Cedar Valley School building is boarded up, and the windows broken, but it still exists on a brush-covered lot, said Emma. The Marx family lived several
miles from the school, so an older brother, who worked for the County, drove his siblings to “Mrs. Marx’ store”—the building that currently houses Austin Pizza Garden. Her older sister took the bus to Fulmore Middle School, while Emma and her younger brother walked over to the school. She remembers it—and the teachers—fondly. “We had three wonderful teachers. Mrs. Boyd taught the upper grades, 6th and 7th, Mrs. Brawner taught the middle grades, fourth and fifth, and Mrs. Connelly taught first through third. They were all wonderful teachers.” She recalls class sizes being somewhere between four and seven students. The school had a lunchroom with a stage, and a student band often performed, “It was a lot of fun,” said Emma. “The band was really cute, playing sticks and the flute. Mrs. Brawner played the piano. Very simple, but it was fun.” Emma recalls a barbecue—either a Western or Hillbilly day—when Mrs. Boyd sent out invitations to the parents and had a bonfire behind the school. “The teachers were real energetic, wanting to not only educate the kids but entertain them, too,” she said. The school cook at the time was Mrs. Wier. If she needed bread for the lunches, she sent a couple of students across the highway to the store. “Back then there was very little traffic,” said Emma. “It was a daily thing, to go to the store and buy bread. Also, some of the older students would help serve the younger ones, and that was fun.” Emma said that an eighth grade class was introduced in the school in time for her to attend. That class was also taught by Mrs. Boyd. Upon graduation, she moved on to Travis High School. Cotton and Emma married and lived in Austin for several years before moving back to Oak Hill. Cotton’s father gave each of his kids a plot of land. Emma and Cotton lived along U.S. 290 West for 28 years. Their son, Wendell, attended first and second grade at the old Oak
Hill Elementary School. He played baseball on the local ballfields, and was an Eagle Scout. It was still a small town. “Back when we lived there, you could go to the store—you knew more than half of the people. You went to church there, we knew a lot of people. It was a folks’ neighborhood. But that changed when the
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highway came through.” Not only did the highway bisect her neighborhood, it took away her home. “Across from the post office, right where the overpass is? That’s where our home was,” she says. They moved to Driftwood. According to the City of Austin, on April 2, 2014, the old Oak Hill Elementary School, located at 6240
U.S. Highway 290 West, became a City of Austin Historical Landmark by ordinance 20010719-029. According to a document dated January 9, 2001, the property had recently been sold by AISD to Austin 1825 Fortview, Inc. The building met the following historical landmark criteria: Continued on next page
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Old Oak Hill School —a history, and a hope Continued from p. 31
• The 1924 school is one of few reminders of rural Oak Hill (Oatmanville) and is the only surviving public building in the community. The school was the center of activity in Oak Hill for five decades. • The 1923 school with 1933 western The Marx children on their way to the Old Oak Hill School.
addition added during the Great Depression through work relief efforts typify stone masonry school construction of the early 20th century. • Building is located adjacent to the historic core of Oak Hill, including a 19th century house and the 1898 Old Rock Store (already designated
as a city historic landmark). • Construction of school is associated with two prominent Oak Hill pioneers: James Andrew Patton and Norwall Mowinkle. The land for the present school was donated by James Andrew Patton, with the stone donated by Norwall Mowinkle. • School is a prominent historic structure located in the historic core of Oatmanville or Oak Hill • School remains as only surviving public building associated with development of Oak Hill. School was the center of activity in the community for 50 years. The Preservation Potential of Building states, “Historic stone school building appears to be in good condition, and can readily be adapted to a new commercial or office use. As a historic landmark building, the property would be eligible for an annual city property tax abatement equal to approximately 30 percent of the assessed taxes. A rehabilitation of the building could also be eligible for federal historic tax credits with a sales tax exemptions for labor costs of rehabilitation.” It is unclear what plans, if any, the current owner has, but the school, which holds an important place in the history of Oak Hill, deserves a better fate than that of the Cedar Valley School.
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House-made noodles prepared fresh daily with chicken, pork, lamb, beef or vegetables Also serving dumplings, skewers, soups and more!
Chen Z
Dapan Spicy Chicken Noodle
Noodle house
6705 West Highway 290, Suite 606 (Corner of William Cannon and Hwy 290)
512.892.8888
Call us at
512-301-0123
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