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Flower Hill, Texas
Ghost town
Flower Hill is located in Texas
Flower Hill
Flower Hill
Flower Hill is located in the United States
Flower Hill
Flower Hill
Coordinates: 29°57′54″N 97°07′53″W / 29.96500°N 97.13139°W / 29.96500; -97.13139
CountryUnited States
StateTexas
CountyBastrop
Elevation
344 ft (105 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)512 & 737

Flower Hill is a ghost town in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. It is located within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.

History[edit]

Founded by emancipated slaves, the town is one of 13 known "Freedom Colonies," in the county.[1] In the 1940s, a church, a cemetery and several houses marked the town on county highway maps. By the 1980s, only the cemetery remained.[2]

Geography[edit]

It is located three miles southeast of Smithville,[2] 19 miles southeast of the town of Bastrop and 49 miles southeast of Austin.

Education[edit]

In 1907, Flower Hill had a one-teacher school for fifty-four black students. When a district system was created in 1921, the school was probably absorbed by the Smithville Independent School District.[2] The community continues to be served by Smithville ISD today.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sitton, Thad; Conrad, James H. (2005). Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow (Print on demand ed.). University of Texas Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-292-70642-2.
  2. ^ a b c Flower Hill, TX (Bastrop County) from the Handbook of Texas Online
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Hill,_Texas

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