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  2. Austin, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of human habitation since at least 9200 BC. The area's earliest known inhabitants lived during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age) and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9200 BC (over 11,200 years ago), based on evidence found throughout the area and documented at the much-studied Gault Site, midway between Georgetown and Fort Cavazos.

  3. History of Austin, Texas - Wikipedia

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    History of Austin, Texas. After declaring its independence from Mexico in March, 1836, the Republic of Texas had numerous locations as its seat of government. This being seen as a problem attempts were made to select a permanent site for the capital. January, 1839, with Mirabeau B. Lamar as the newly elected president, a site selection ...

  4. List of tallest buildings in Austin, Texas - Wikipedia

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    The aggregated heights of Austin's high-rises is second in Texas, behind Houston, based on data from Texas Real Estate Source. [ 3 ][ 4 ] The current tallest completed building in Austin is The Independent, with a height of 694 ft (212 m), followed by The Austonian at 683 ft (208 m) and Fairmont Austin at 591 ft (180 m).

  5. Texas Rangers solve 40-year-old Ector County cold case murder ...

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    Sep. 25—AUSTIN — The man who pled guilty to a decades-old cold case murder in Ector County will spend the next 20 years behind bars. Billy Wayne Ludwigson, 62, was arrested by the Texas ...

  6. Greater Austin - Wikipedia

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    Greater Austin is located in Central Texas along the Balcones Fault and Interstate 35, northeast of San Antonio. The bisecting Balcones Fault renders eastern portions relatively flat and western portions—located on the edge of the Texas Hill Country —mildly hilly.

  7. Moonlight towers (Austin, Texas) - Wikipedia

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    1970. Designated TSAL. 5/28/1981. The moonlight towers in Austin, Texas, are the only known surviving moonlight towers in the world. They are 165 feet (50 m) tall and have a 15-foot (4.6 m) foundation. A single tower casts light from six carbon arc lamps, illuminating a 1,500-foot-radius (460 m) circle brightly enough to read a watch.

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