Moore's Crossing Historic District

Coordinates: 30°10′5″N 97°39′42″W / 30.16806°N 97.66167°W / 30.16806; -97.66167
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Moore's Crossing Historic District
MPS
Southeast Travis County MPS
NRHP reference No.96001091[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 16, 1996

Moore's Crossing Historic District is a community located in rural Travis County nine miles southeast of Austin, Texas near the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport.

The location was used as a low-water crossing of Onion Creek as early as the 1840s but did not receive its current name until the early 1900s, when John B. Moore built a store in the area. Moore's Crossing was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1996[2]

Description and significance

The southeastern quadrant of what is now Travis County was the first part of the county Europeans settled after the

Colorado River, the region's rich black land promised much greater agricultural potential than the rocky hills to the west. Its first residents were farmers who plowed fields and built modest homes along the rivers and creeks that ran through the area. Despite the designation and subsequent growth of nearby Austin as the state capital and county seat, southeast Travis County remained largely an agricultural region until the construction of Bergstrom Air Force Base in 1942, during World War II. Population growth in 1990s and the opening of ABIA in 1999 was followed by commercial development along Texas State Highway 71.[3]

In 1915, three of six spans from the 1884 iron

Dallas is made of concrete piers and the remaining three spans from the Congress Avenue Bridge. It was completed in 1922 and took Burleson Road across Onion Creek to Farm to Market Road 973.[4]

On January 8, 1980, the bridge was "finally put to rest" after nearly 97 years.

The bridge at Moore's Crossing was registered as a Historic Landmark in 1980 by the Texas Historical Commission. The community itself was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1996.[2]

The bridge decorated for production of "The Leftovers"

In television

Warner Bros. Television used the Moore's Crossing Bridge and the park beneath it as a location for season 2 of The Leftovers, which airs on HBO. Production at the location occurred between April and October 2015.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "TEXAS - Travis County Historic Districts". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  3. ^ "Moore's Crossing Historic District". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Association. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  4. ^ Smyrl, Vivian Elizabeth. Moore's Crossing, Texas. Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  5. ^ Keith Peterson (January 3, 2010). "Moore's Crossing Bridge". The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  6. ^ "Richard Moya Park". Travis County Parks. Travis County. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
  7. ^ "The Leftovers Season 2: Episode #10 Clip "Meg's Secret Weapon" (HBO)". YouTube. HBO. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2021.

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