Enjoy some of the photos we’ve collected showing some of the wonderful history of Cedar Park Texas.
George W. Cluck – primary colonizer of Cedar Park. Arrived in 1873 purchasing 329 acres. The Cluck Ranch was then sold to the railroad and renamed “Brueggerhoff” and then “Cedar Park” in 1887.
Railroad – Photo by A.C. Bible
A.H. Dunlap (back of photo reads: Uncle Hugh
Allie Anderson
Alvin with Oxen
Baby in Cluck yard
Bonnett Family Portrait
Cedar Park Post Office
George W. Cluck – primary colonizer of Cedar Park. Arrived in 1873 purchasing 329 acres. The Cluck Ranch was then sold to the railroad and renamed “Brueggerhoff” and then “Cedar Park” in 1887.
Postcard from George Cluck, 1916
Cluck Family Portrait by Cotton Bros. Photographers
Home of Mrs. George W. Cluck 1915, Cedar Park, Texas
Original Cluck Homestead circa 1873. Now the NW corner of US183 and Buttercup Creek Blvd. Back: Monday, 11/07/1896, taken by Emmitt
Cluck oxen and wagon
Dr. Benjamin Thomas (Doc) Crumley & wife Lulu Riffe Crumley. They settled in Buttercup (1 mile south of Cedar Park) in the middle 1800s. He was part Cherokee Indian and wore his hair in two long braids. He gathered roots and herbs and processed them in his office for use for treating his patients. He was known as a very good doctor and was often called for consultation by Austin doctors.
Faubion Grocery was built on old Highway 183 in 1942 and became the 2nd Post Office / Grocery. It was used as the primary Post Office until 1979. Later used as an antique store until it was torn down in the 80’s.
George and Hattie Cluck Tombstone
Harriet (Hattie) Cluck, Wife of George. Became the community’s first postmistress in 1874.
Henry’s Grocery
Man on plow, 1946
Julia Cluck Friedsam
Julia Cluck
Mollie Houghton
Old Whitestone School
Home site of Emmet Cluck and location of current railroad foreman’s house. Situated at the railroad and Brushy Creek Road. Also was the location of a store, post office, gas station, “The Park” and a combination school and church. 1877
Running Brushy School – this log schoolhouse was established in the 1860s. It was replaced in 1877 by a one-story wood frame building, which remained in operation until 1937.
Sallie Lorinda Standefer
Standefer
Standefer Home 1846
Standefer Note
Sue Dunlap
Mrs. Susan Gray, 1912
Three unknown women, Cedar Park
Tom H. Family
Northwest railroad trestle over Brushy Creek where 36 granite blocks rest in the stream bed where they toppled off eighteen derailed railroad flat cars in 1886. Engineer Charlie Enlow managed to keep the engine and the caboose on the track. 1866.
