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History in
a Pecan Shell
The town was platted
on the property of Gibson Kuykendall, Texas Revolutionary War veteran
and one of Austin's
300 original colonists. The town was named (in 1837) after Alamo
defender William B. Travis whose memory was still very fresh in everyone's
mind. Travis had a post office in operation from 1846 through 1881.
Not being on a railroad line and the proximity to Bellville
probably hastened Travis' decline.
In the 1930s only the cemetery remained with a few people living nearby.
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