Everything about The Texas Hill Country totally explained
The
Texas Hill Country is a region of
Central Texas,
USA, that features rolling, somewhat rugged,
hills that consist primarily of
limestone. The Hill Country terrain can be seen in
San Antonio's northern suburbs and
Austin's western suburbs. The region is the eastern portion of the
Edwards Plateau bounded by the
Balcones Fault on the east and the
Llano Uplift to the west and north. The terrain is punctuated by a large number of limestone
rocks and boulders and a thin layer of
topsoil which makes the region prone to
flash flooding.
Several cities were settled at the base of the Balcones Escarpment, including
Austin,
San Marcos, and
New Braunfels, as a result of springs discharging water stored in the Edwards Aquifer.
Due to its
karst topography, the area also features a number of
caves, such as
Inner Space Caverns and
Natural Bridge Caverns. The deeper caverns of the area form several
aquifers which serve as a source of
drinking water for the residents of the area.
Several tributaries of the
Colorado River (Texas) -- including the
Llano and
Pedernales rivers, which cross the region west to east and join the Colorado as it cuts across the region to the southeast -- drain a large portion of the Hill Country. The Guadalupe, San Antonio, Frio, and Nueces rivers originate in the Hill Country.
The area is also unique for its fusion of
Spanish and
Central European (
German,
Swiss,
Austrian,
Alsatian, and
Czech) influences in food, beer, architecture, and music that form a distinctively "Texan" culture separate from the state's
Southern and
Southwestern influences. For example, the
accordion was popularized in
Tejano music in the
19th Century due to cultural exposure to German settlers.
In recent years, the region has emerged as the center of the
Texas wine industry. Three
American Viticultural Areas are located in the areas:
Texas Hill Country AVA,
Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country AVA, and
Bell Mountain AVA.
Notable people from Texas Hill Country
- Lyndon B. Johnson - President of the United States, born and raised in Stonewall, Texas.
- Hondo Crouch - humorist, proprieter of Luckenbach, Texas where "Everyone Is Someone in Luckenbach", a song by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson memorialized the small town where he lived.
- Fred Gipson - novelist who authored "Old Yeller," "Savage Sam," and "Hound Dog Man", lived in Mason, Texas.
- Gerald Lyda (1923-2005), general contractor and cattle rancher, born and raised in the Hill Country community of Marble Falls, founded Darragh & Lyda Inc. with Burnet County rancher Steinmetz Darragh, owned & operated Lone Star Livestock Commission Company in San Antonio and owned the 320,000 acre * La Escalera Ranch in Texas; Darragh & Lyda, Inc., in a joint venture with H. A. Lott Inc. of Houston, Texas, built the Tower of the Americas and most of the major structures associated with HemisFair '68, San Antonio's world's fair. Lyda's company was nationally-recognized for its construction of The Alamodome.
- Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commanded U.S. Naval forces in the Pacific during World War II was from Fredericksburg.
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