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PFLUGERVILLE,
TEXASTravis County,
Texas Hill Country
FM 1825
15 miles N of Austin
Population: 16,335
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A
former bank is the cornerstone of downtown Pflugerville.
TE photo 2005 |
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History
in a Pecan Shell
German immigrant Henry Pfluger is the town's namesake. Pfluger brought
his family here in the late 1840s, although it didn't develop into
a community until after the Civil War.
A school was opened in 1872 although there was no post office until
one was granted in 1893. The population reached 250 in the 1890s and
a small downtown developed, despite the proximity to Round
Rock. When the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad connected Austin
and Georgetown in 1904, it passed
near enough to Pflugerville to insure growth. The population soon
doubled.
Several local schools merged with the Pflugerville high school in
the early 1920s. Increased mobility after WWII siphoned off some of
Pflugerville's population. It declined to 380 by 1949. The town incorporated
in the early 1960s and the population started growing. By 1980 it
had reached 662 - a small number compared to the growth it was about
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By
the late 1980s it had exploded to an estimated 4,000 people, growing
to nearly 4,500 by 1990. The 2004 state map shows a population over
16,000.
The town still manages to maintain a semblance of the quiet town it
had once been. The tiny cluster of buildings downtown remind visitors
that it is indeed a separate town and not an extension of the Austin-Round
Rock-Georgetown sprawl.
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