kingsland texas

1 min read 2021-11-11 00:17:45

Lake LBJ and the Rebirth of Kingsland, Chapter 14: Kingsland’s #1 Neighbor

Note: We’re skipping a few chapters for now to get to the heart of the story sooner. We’ll fill in the blanks later! Read chapter one

1 min read 2021-06-29 01:18:00

Bill and Dolphia Bransford arrived in Kingsland while work was underway on the Granite Shoals Dam in 1950. They purchased a strip of land between

1 min read 2021-06-17 01:38:30

Kingsland has had a longer and more interesting history than most of the towns around Lake LBJ. And while today the lake shapes and defines the

1 min read 2021-06-10 00:14:41

Pearl Goble was born in 1923 in Lampasas County, but she had family here in Kingsland (her grandmother, aunt, uncle and brother all lived here),

1 min read 2021-05-28 02:07:32

Malcolm Long was here in the Kingsland area several years before the lake which borders and defines modern-day Kingsland. In fact, the Long family

1 min read 2021-05-28 01:28:04

The Shirley Williams ranch and its owner were not that much different than hundreds of other depression-era ranches and ranchers in the Texas Hill

1 min read 2021-05-19 03:15:50

Read chapter one of John Hallowell’s Lake LBJ and the Rebirth of Kingsland at this link. Several members of the Banks family played a large role

1 min read 2021-05-14 23:55:35

One of the reasons this book is called “Re-Birth” is that Kingsland had a rich history long before Lake LBJ was formed. Archaeological