4/8/2023 0 Comments Austin 1940s 1950s![]() ![]() He died in 1868 and his wife Mary died several years later. Goodrich’s land extended into present day Barton Heights. His plantation home is what is now Paggi House on Lee Barton Road. He came with his large family from Tennessee. In mid-1850 Sterling Washington (S.W.) Goodrich bought a large part of the Decker tract and established a plantation with about 30 slaves. The original Issac Decker land was sold and resold several times. He sold his land to David Browning and Daniel Browning on June 18, 1838. ![]() Issac Decker, a shoemaker from Canada, moved from Travis County to Montgomery County Texas, reportedly because of hostile Indians in the area. Hill nor Issac Decker stayed in the area very long. These two tracts (a league or 4428.4 acres each) encompassed much of the land in South Austin with the boundaries roughly from the Colorado River to Ben White Blvd (Hwy 290/71) and IH35 to Walsh-Tarlton Ln. Hill ( title date ), with the north-south dividing line between the two grants running along the location of Bluebonnet Lane today. 20) belonging to Issac Decker ( title date ) and the one to the west (League No. The area of Zilker neighborhood is part of two of these original land grants obtained from Mexico just before the Texas Revolution, the one on the east (League No. The government issued 53 land titles to settlers in the original Milam Colony in 1835. In 1826, Benjamin Rush Milam obtained an empresario contract to settle 300 families between the Guadalupe and Colorado Rivers north of San Antonio Road. ![]()
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