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• Servant Girl Anihalator

  On Christmas Eve in 1884, Austin became the scene for the first reported serial killer in America. For one year he terrorized Austin killing 9 people. All but two were black servant girls, killing them with an axe and then raping them. The last two murders, on Christmas Eve 1885, were that of upper class white women. To this day the murders have never been solved. All of this happened three years before the famous Jack [...]

• History Of The ATX

  History Of ATX

  photo by Brooks G.
  Austin is the state capital of Texas which was established in 1835 and originally named Waterloo. In 1838 Waterloo was renamed Austin after Stephen F. Austin. The story goes that Stephen F. Austin negotiated a peace treaty with the local Indians, and when Waterloo was chosen to become the capital of the new Republic of Texas the city was renamed Austin after him.
  In October 1839 the government of the new Republic of [...]