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HUTTO,
TEXAS


HUTTO, TEXAS est. 1876

Population: 5,568 (2004)

 

Main Street, 1890. Hutto was the home of the first railroad in Williamson County, the International-Great Northern Railroad.  Close proximity to Round Rock and Austin has contributed to Hutto’s recent growth in population.

 

Courtesy of Clarice Hanstrom


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Hutto Texas 1890   image # 9066


Hutto Texas 2006


Hutto downtown before cars


Hutto downtown note cars on right side


Hutto Texas

Hutto is at the intersection of State Highway 79 and Farm Road 1660,  seven miles east of Round Rock in south central Williamson County. Many of the pioneers were German, Danish, or Swedish immigrants. After the International-Great Northern Railroad, built the Hutto Station in 1876 and the community soon changed its name to Hutto.

click to view Texas History plaque dedication Feb. 2006

click to view Lutherans and Swedes in Texas

click to view Adam Orgain: The First Settler Of Hutto

click to view  History of the Hutto Community

click to see How the Hippo came to Hutto!

click to view Hutto: Heritage, Hippos and “Branding”

click to view Hutto: We’re happening!

click to viewFounder of Hutto, Texas

click to view Hutto Named After Pioneer

  • click here to view the Hutto Heritage Foundation photos


    click on thumbnail images of Hutto, Texas for an enlarged view


    pic 1096
    Funeral Notice 1912 for Mrs. S.J. Tumilson, services at Hutto Cemetery
     


    pic 1120
    Shiloh Cemetery
    near Hutto


    pic 2159
    Girl w/ mule near Norman's Crossing, SE of Hutto, Texas


    pic 2160
    Louis Kruger on harrow w/ three mules, Normans Crossings, SE Hutto, Texas
     


    pic 2163
    Louis Kruger, ca. 1956 with big catfish, caught from Brushy Creek, near
    Normans Crossing, SE of Hutto, Texas
     


    pic 2165
    Flo Kruger, at age 16, 4th of July Beauty Pagent, held in Taylor, Texas, ca. 1946


    pic 4039
    Men loading cotton bales on old truck near Hutto, Texas

    pic 4040
    Vernon Krueger, with sheep, near Hutto, Texas

    pic 4042
    Louis Kruger on horse named "Maude", near Hutto, Texas
     

    pic 5034
    Hutto Swedish Lutheran Church Sunday School Picnic on San Gabriel River, just east of Jonah, Texas, on Gattis Gravel Bar, ca. 1944. Larry Rydell [second from left] and Rodney Johnson [third from left]
     

    pic 6069
    School Class,
    Hutto, Texas


    pic 9084
    "Good Luck" Grocery Store in Hutto, Texas
     


    pic 9027
    Monodale Cotton Gin, located NE of Hutto, Texas

    pic 8354
    Andrew Spong Family, Swedish Immigrants, Hutto, Texas, ca.1900's

    pic 8145
    Andrew Spong Family Reunion, Hutto, Texas,
    ca. 1920

     


    pic 9065
    East St. Hutto, fire destroyed most of the buildings in 1902

     

     

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