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From: "Cecelia" <>
Subject: Re: [GERMAN-TEXAN] Burleson, TX
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:22:35 -0500
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Burleson County is closer to Austin, not the town.
You're right, the town of Burleson is in the Ft. Worth area. My aunt
taught school there back in the late 30s or early 40s. She went from there
to Ft. Worth to teach, then went to work at Convair/Consolidated during the
War.
Bryan is about 100 miles east of Austin. Burleson county is west of us.
Cecelia in Bryan




> Caroline,
>
> I'm not sure what town you are confused with (maybe Bryan), but Burleson
> is south of Fort Worth. It's not particularly close to Austin, and
> definitely not 30 miles southeast.
>
> Andy Crews


>>

>>
>> I don't know if you're familiar with Texas geography, but in case you're
>> not: Bastrop and Burleson (which is where your family lived before
>> Bastrop) is about 30 miles southeast of Austin, putting it near what's
>> considered the "Hill Country". The "Hill Country" is roughly west and
>> northwest of Austin & Bastrop. Burleson is east of Austin and northeast
>> of Bastrop. Galveston is located further southeast. In other words,
>> Bastrop and Burleson are "on the way", so to speak, to the Hill Country
>> where there were concentrated German settlements. Although these were
>> not the only ones -- Bastrop and Burleson had some German settlers, too.

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