Southwest Austin History

Evitas Botanitas

By Yvonne Lim Wilson Friday, 29 January 2010 00:00

Locally owned restaurant helped pioneer interior Mexican food in south Austin

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Texas Parks and Wildlife

By Kelsey Wilkinson Wednesday, 16 December 2009 00:00

State agency manages and protects local wildlife, habitat

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Film locations throughout Austin

By Kelsey Wilkinson Friday, 23 October 2009 15:37

Some of the most famous scenes from Hollywood blockbusters were filmed in Austin. Look for elements from the locations below the next time you pop in one of these DVDs.

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Austin City Limits Music Festival

By Eric Pulsifer Friday, 25 September 2009 07:01

ACL began in 2002 when Austin-based concert organizer and artist management company C3 Presents decided to put together a destination music festival in the same vein as Austin City Limits.

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The Battle of MoPac

By Larry Willoughby Friday, 22 May 2009 12:15

Since the 1960s, Austin has been known for its community activism and intense political struggles. One of the first and most passionate of these battles was the controversy over the building of Loop 1, more commonly known as MoPac.

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IH 35

By Larry Willoughby Friday, 24 April 2009 13:49

East Avenue corridor was once reserved for horse and buggy traffic

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How a city was born within a city

By Christi Covington Friday, 22 August 2008 15:06

Take a look at the incorporation of Sunset Valley.

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Dairies prospered south of the river

By Karen R. Thompson Thursday, 08 May 2008 10:21

Most Austinites in the late 1800s enjoyed home delivery by a milkman with a horse-drawn wagon.

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Austin’s first airfield

By Karen R. Thompson Friday, 11 April 2008 08:46

With the news of Wilbur and Orville Wright’s first flight on the beach of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in December 1903, no one envisioned a landing field being built in Austin within 14 years.

When World War I began in Europe in the summer of 1914, Americans began to realize the United States might enter the war at some point. Angered by attacks upon its ships in the Atlantic, America declared war on Germany in April 1917.

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