Watterson

Bastrop County, TX

Status: Located

Year Established: Unknown

Council of Governments: CAPCOG

Public History: “History: Established about 1870 as freed slaves began striking out from their old masters’ plantations. Settlers at Watterson were from the Hill’s Prairie area plantations. James Franklin purchased the first farm in 1875. Others bought small acreages or were sharecroppers on farms under white ownership.

Cemetery: Haywood”

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