Williamson County Historical Co

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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pic 1085 Pond Springs School & Students, 1910	pic 1128 Karen Thompson at Pond Springs Cemetery	pic 2133 Pond Springs Girl Scouts
pic 2135 Mason Thompson as Boy Scout	pic 2150 Family with Old Car	pic 2151 Pond Springs School, Group of Girls

Pond Springs Cemetery - 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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Pond Springs, Texas by The Handbook of Texas Online

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