Pflugerville Week - Gilleland Creek

Gilleland Creek rises four miles northwest of Pflugerville in northern Travis County and runs southwest for twenty-seven miles to its mouth on the Colorado River, seven miles southeast of Austin . The stream runs through Pfluger Park and Gilleland Creek Park in Pflugerville. The creek was named for James Gilleland, whose headright was located near the mouth.

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Pflugerville Week - Pflugerville Fallen Warrior Memorial

The Pflugerville Fallen Warrior Monument was a community project and idea conceived by a group of concerned citizens after the death of Sgt. Byron Norwood in Falujah, Iraq in 2004. The Fallen Warrior Memorial Project quickly became a grassroots movement to locate and honor Pflugerville's military men and women who gave their lives for our freedom. It stands on a small rise on the bank of Gilleland Creek. Erected to memorialize Pflugerville's fallen sons from all the wars, the memorial was originally dedicated on November 11, 2005. Beginning in WWI through the conflict in Iraq, Pflugerville's memorial remembers twelve fallen warriors: Corporal William Wieland, Staff Sergeant Jose Riojas, Lieutenant Kermit Fuchs, Corporal Alfred Kerlin, PFC Roman Correa, Corporal Elias Lopez, Machinist's Mate Third Class Edmund Vorwerk, Lance Corporal Gaylon Douglas Smith, Sergeant Byron W. Norwood, Cpl Yari Mokri, Captain Sean Lyerly and PFC Ron Joshua, Jr.

The Fallen Warrior Memorial was designed by Britta Herzog and sculptor Cindy Burleson.

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Pflugerville Week - Lake Pflugerville

Lake Pflugerville is a 180 acre reservoir built to provide Pflugerville citizens with drinking water. The lake is one of the city's most popular family playgrounds. Lake Pflugerville provides swimming year around and has a 3-mile granite trail along the perimeter of the lake. Located at the intersection of Weiss Lane and Pflugerville Parkway, the lake is open for fishing, swimming, kayak rentals, and kite surfing. In addition, there is a playground, pavilion and beach area and boat launch.

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Pflugerville Week - Bohls House

The historical home of the Walter Bohls Family was dedicated as a Texas Landmark on October 22, 2006.

Located at 901 Old Hutto Road, Heritage House is open for visitors the first Sunday of each month, from 1:00 - 4:00 pm.

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Pflugerville Week - Bohls House Historical Marker

Gottlieb William Bohls (1878-1961), the oldest of Heinrich and Julie Schroeder Bohls’ ten children, was born on his family’s farm near this site. In 1906, G.W. married Bertha Timmerman (1883-1967), and five years later they purchased a 95-acre farm on the Austin-Hutto road, formerly the site of the Carrington Ranch School. They lived in a small home until this two-story, eight-room house could be completed in 1913. After twelve years, G.W. sold the property to his youngest brother, Otto Walter Bohls, Sr. (1898-1973), and his wife, Laura Emma Anna (Fuchs) (1898-1992). Otto promoted soil conservation practices on the farm and in the area, serving as chair of the Travis County Agricultural Adjustment Administration for 13 years. Contour farming, planting cover crops, building stock tanks, rotating crops and planting new seed varieties reduced wind and water erosion and kept the soil intact during periods of drought. The Bohls family deeded the property to the city of Pflugerville in 1993 to promote and interpret the city’s heritage and culture.

The Queen Anne Free Classic style house features a hipped cross-gabled roof with dormer windows and fishscale shingles. Prominent elements include a wraparound porch, main door sidelights, a longleaf pine interior, and cutaway bays with wooden brackets on the front-facing parlor and side-facing dining room. Original outbuildings included a barn, two homes for farm hands, a smokehouse, an outhouse and a carriage garage. The original rain harvesting system, including a 4,000-gallon brick and concrete underground cistern and a 2,000-gallon galvanized tin cistern above ground, was the home’s only source of drinking water until 1975.

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Pflugerville Week - Historical Marker

Henry Pfluger (1803-67), who migrated from Germany to Texas in 1849-50, moved his large family here in 1853. Other settlers joined them, and in 1872 a school was begun on Henry Lisso's farm. Immanuel Lutheran Church was founded in 1874. Primarily a farming settlement, Pflugerville had no commercial businesses until 1890, when Louis Bohls built a general store. A post office was opened there in 1893 with Bohls as postmaster. In 1891 two community organizations were formed: the German-American Mutual Assurance Association, to insure townspeople against natural disasters; and "Pflugerville Schuetzen and kegel verain," a shooting and bowling club.

The village began to grow when the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad arrived in 1904, George Pfluger (1834-1910) and his son Albert (1878-1969) platted the townsite, and George donated land for a train depot and a school. Early businesses included drugstores, groceries, a hotel, grist mill, cotton gin, ice factory and Archie Ward started a telephone system. Farmers State Bank, chartered in 1906, became First State Bank in 1933. A newspaper "The Pflugerville Press," was published from 1907 until 1942.

In 1958-62, the Pflugerville High School football team gained national fame by winning 55 consecutive games.

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Pflugerville Week

Pflugerville is a suburb of Austin and basically right across Interstate 35 from Dixi and me. It has grown quite considerably in the past 10 years, but still has a small town feel to it. This week I'm going to show you some points of interest in Pflugerville.

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