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Pond Springs
Pond
Springs, Texas
Pond Springs or Pond Spring was at the intersection of
Farm Road 620 and U.S. Highway 183, on Live Oak Prairie nine miles southwest of Round Rock in
southwest Williamson County. It was settled in the early 1850s and named for a
nearby spring that formed a pond.
Pond Springs was one of the earliest communities
in Williamson County, settled before the county was founded in 1848. This Pond Springs School photo was taken in 1898.
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Pond Springs School & Students, 1910 |
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Karen Thompson at Pond Springs Cemetery
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Pond Springs
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Mason Thompson as Boy Scout |
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Family with Old Car |
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Pond Springs School, Group of Girls |
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Pond Springs Cemetery
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Historical Marker
This graveyard was begun for members of the Pond Springs Community in the 1860s.
The oldest grave is believed to be that of Mrs. Asenath M. Stewart (d. 1862).
Also interred here is Mexican War veteran William P. Rutledge, Sr. (1815-1890),
and Lavinia Hyland Chapman (1844-1929), a citizen of the Republic of Texas.
Although the land was in use as a graveyard years earlier, it was not officially
deeded as such by Thomas L. and H. M. Rutledge until 1872, and did not appear in
deed records as a cemetery until 1877. It serves as a reminder of early Pond
Springs history.
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