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Lockhart, TX - History
We would like to provide the residents of Lockhart a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Lockhart Home page. The Lockhart Home page provides as much information as possible on Lockhart. Knowing Lockhart’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lockhart’s Home page, you will also find Lockhart’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Lockhart has a population of 13782. 44.3% of Lockhart’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.7 are female. 48.4% of Lockhart is married and 60.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $152,873, and the average rent is $1,005. Household median income in Lockhart is $59,253, and the individual median income is $29,830. Lockhart’s Ethnic is the following: White(81.1%), Hispanic(53.5%), Other(5.6%), Black(5.3%), Multiple(4.4%), Asian(2.9%), Native(0.5%).
The city of Lockhart is named after Byrd Lockhart, an assistant surveyor of Green DeWitt and reportedly the first Anglo to set foot in Caldwell County. Lockhart was the site of a victory of the Texans over the Comanche, at the Battle of Plum Creek in 1840. Lockhart was originally called "Plum Creek", but the name was later changed to Lockhart. The town's economic growth began with the arrival of the railroad in the late 19th century, when the town became a regional shipping center for local cotton.
Following the arrival of the railroad, immigrants arrived in Lockhart and opened various businesses. Lockhart has several claims to fame. In 1999, the Texas Legislature proclaimed Lockhart the "Barbecue Capital of Texas"; Lockhart has four major barbecue restaurants. The Dr. Eugene Clark Library is the oldest operating public library in Texas.
Lockhart was also the subject of an article by the architectural historian and critic Colin Rowe and architect John Hejduk, first published in Architectural Record in 1957 and republished in the collection of his writings As I Was Saying (1996). Rowe and Hejduk see Lockhart as a "curiously eloquent" example of a Victorian post-frontier American town. Lockhart has played host to many film sets, as this quaint, small town is located just 30 miles (48 km) south of Austin.
The 1996 Christopher Guest comedy film Waiting for Guffman and the 1993 drama What's Eating Gilbert Grape were filmed partly in Lockhart, including the historic courthouse and the town square. The city's Walmart store was featured in the 2000 film Where the Heart Is. On July 30, 2016, a hot air balloon struck a power line and caught on fire, killing all 16 people on board when it crashed near the unincorporated community of Maxwell.
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