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BERTRAM,
TEXAS
Burnet County,
Texas Hill Country
Junction of Hwy 29, FM 243 and 1174
10 miles E of Burnet
3 miles N of Oatmeal
41 miles NW of Austin
via US 183
Population: 1,122 (2000)
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Bertram
early 1930s street scene
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Water
tower in Bertram, Texas
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Bertram,
Texas History
"Bertram
... was established in 1882, when the community of San Gabriel in
Williamson County was moved two miles northwest to the newly constructed
Austin and Northwestern Railroad. The new community was named for
Austin merchant Rudolph Bertram, the largest stockholder in the Austin
and Northwestern...." See Handbook of Texas Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/hlb27.html |
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