Horst’s Pasture

Travis County, TX

Status: Located – Needs More Research

Year Established: Unknown

Council of Governments: CAPCOG

Public History: It was likely part of the original land belonging to Louis Horst and appears to have been known as Horst’s Pasture, although it may not have had an official name. Mears notes that there did not appear to have been a church or school, but that the area had been identified as an African-American settlement by an elderly African-American gentleman named Toby Scott in 1986.94 This may indeed have been the case, because Louis Horst, who immigrated to Texas from Germany in the 1830s, had a plantation in this area. According to information on the family available from Ancestry.com, “the Horst Plantation occupied much of the area where the University of Texas is located.” One of Horst’s sons reportedly had children with a former slave named Frances Jane Ridge Densmore.It is therefore plausible that former slaves and their descendents settled nearby after the Civil War.

Simien-Horst-Monroe. Rootsweb. Ancestry.com. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgibin/
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