Austin County, Texas


Towns in Austin County, Texas

Austin County Towns

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Town of Cat Spring, Texas

Cat Spring is located at the intersection of Farm roads 2187 and 949, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad and the west bank of Bernard Creek in western Austin County, was first settled in 1834 by a group of German immigrants from the duchies of Oldenburg and Westphalia led by Ludwig Anton Siegmund von Roeder and Robert Kleberg. The community received its name when a son of Leopold von Roeder killed a puma at one of the springs of the San Bernard River near the family farm. Became a town in 1852.

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