By SARAH DOOLITTLE, Four Points News
Crossing cattle guards to get to work and sending their children to school in Leander where they rode the school bus on country roads an hour each way was the way of life a half century ago in Four Points.
In 1957, Tom and Carole Greene bought their Lake Austin property — they had to drive through the Steiner Ranch to get to their house where there were no other houses, just land between them and the ranch.
By ANDREW WEBER, Austin Monitor
Yep. A lot more people have moved to Austin, the Census Bureau confirms.
The latest U.S. Census Bureau data confirms something you’ve definitely noticed or complained about in the last eight years: Austin is growing.
Numbers released on April 19 show that the Travis County population increased by more than 21 percent between 2010 and 2018 from 1,030,539 to 1,248,743.
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Local families and church leaders gathered on Thursday, May 2 for the National Day of Prayer at Towne Square Park in Steiner Ranch.
Sabryna and Dan Taggart and family welcomed everyone to the event. Olivia Helmund sang the national anthem and “Amazing Grace”.
By SARAH DOOLITTLE
Four Points News
The oldest known surviving, continuous residents on Lake Austin are Tom and Carole Greene. and they have seen significant changes to Steiner Ranch, Four Points and Austin since they bought their flooded out lake house in the mid-1950s.
This year Tom, 90, and Carole, 88, will celebrate 68 years of marriage and many decades marked by change: first as children during the Great Depression, as teens during World War II, as young 20-somethings during the Korean War, etc.