Answers to the Burning Questions

My sister has spent the last 34 years trying to figure out ways to embarrass me in public. Now she has branched out to the world wide web. Check out this entry she found about Oak Hill on Wikipedia. It answers the question about boundaries. We do live in Oak Hill, but so do all of you Circle C people out there too. Jonna, you're still in Oak Hill because the eastern boundary is Brodie Lane! Beth and Kris, you may not be safe out there in Bel Terra. If you're in Hays County then you are beyond the boundary but your zip code is listed as Oak Hill. (Yes, I looked it up. I'm majorly procrastinating at work today.)

This was very interesting reading. It made me appreciate the neighborhood a lot more. I'm glad it's no longer called Oatmanville which was its first name back in the 1800's. Once there were Comanches and Apaches settled out here. And there's some great history about how prisoners were brought in to quarry limestone for the interior of the capitol building. That's where they got the name Convict Hill. There was also a ghost story about how the prisoners were shot for trying to escape and buried under piles of limestone. And "Have you heard" that the land where Freescale is used to be a race track in the 40's called Oak Hill Downs?

I also learned who William Cannon is. My sister never fails to ask me that question every time she comes to visit, so it's good to have some closure on that. And our cross street Beckett is named after another early pioneer.

So it wasn't always pawn shops and roadside rug sellers. Oak Hill was the last stop in Austin for the cattle drives before they headed out into the hill country. Pretty cool...