Flower Hill, Texas

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Flower Hill, Texas
Ghost town
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Flower Hill
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Flower Hill
Coordinates: 29°57′54″N97°07′53″W / 29.96500°N 97.13139°W / 29.96500; -97.13139
Country United States
State Texas
County Bastrop
Elevation
344 ft (105 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes 512 & 737

Flower Hill is a ghost town in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. It is located within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.

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History

Founded by emancipated slaves, the town is one of 13 known "Freedom Colonies," in the county. [1] In the 1940s, a church, a cemetery and several houses marked the town on county highway maps. By the 1980s, only the cemetery remained. [2]

Geography

It is located three miles southeast of Smithville, [2] 19 miles southeast of the town of Bastrop and 49 miles southeast of Austin.

Education

In 1907, Flower Hill had a one-teacher school for fifty-four black students. When a district system was created in 1921, the school was probably absorbed by the Smithville Independent School District. [2] The community continues to be served by Smithville ISD today.

References

  1. ↑ Sitton, Thad; Conrad, James H. (2005). Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow (Print on demand ed.). University of Texas Press. p.  191. ISBN   978-0-292-70642-2.
  2. 1 2 3 Flower Hill, TX (Bastrop County) from the Handbook of Texas Online
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