Austin History

Pease is one of four elementary schools the Austin ISD school board voted to close after the 2019-20 school year. Austin ISD has been working on plans to repurpose those campuses.

Shows, festivals, a boxset and more will highlight the music that made up the club’s storied history.

In order to answer this ATXplained question, we enlisted the help of some paranormal experts. Watch the video if you dare.

Austin is not often associated with alligators. But gators do loom large in our local history.

The concert was so epic — and so messy — that if you remember it, maybe you weren’t really there.

Suzy González hopes to gather as many family photos and stories of Austin as she can to use as inspiration to paint a mural at the Austin History Center. She also hopes to create an archive to show how diverse Austin really is.

For some, Old Austin boiled down to a feeling. For others, it was a person, a band, a beer, a stage …

The store became a locus of Chicano organizing in the 1970s, welcoming Latino politicians like former state Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos to conduct campaign events.

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.

Local newspaper archives show people have missed "Old Austin" as far back as 1884.