{"nrhp_refnum":"96001091","name":"Moore's Crossing Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by FM 973, old Burleson Rd. and Onion Cr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.167608193500058,"lon":-97.66198595410086,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-10-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Communications","Commerce","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural community core district of 21 resources on about 10.83 acres beside Onion Creek at F.M. 973 and old Burleson Road in southeast Travis County, Austin, Texas. Its buildings date mainly from about 1893 through the early 20th century.","why_significant":"The district preserves the heart of Moore's Crossing, a rural commercial and social center that grew after the Civil War around a low-water ford on Onion Creek. Its country store, houses, outbuildings, ford and metal-truss bridge show the kinds of buildings once common in rural Travis County. Few similar communities near Austin have survived intact.","narrative":"Moore's Crossing is a small rural community core in southeast Travis County, Texas, clustered beside a historic low-water ford on Onion Creek. The district covers about 10.83 acres and 21 resources, of which 13 contribute to its character. Most are modest one-story wood-frame vernacular buildings from the early 20th century. A country store built or rebuilt in 1914 serves as the focal point, along with an L-plan house of about 1893 showing Queen Anne influence and a metal-truss bridge. The bridge was reassembled from salvaged parts of the Congress Avenue Bridge over the Colorado River. The community grew slowly after the Civil War, serving nearby tenant and yeoman farms, and once had a school, cotton gin, blacksmith shops, a church and a meat market. Development was largely complete by the early 1920s. The district was listed because it keeps a rare cross-section of rural buildings, outbuildings, a ford and a bridge, while growth around Austin has erased similar settlements nearby.","period_of_significance":"Ends 1946 (start date not stated in the provided text)","architect_builder":"King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, Ohio (bridge designer)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; 1-part commercial block; barn; center passage; vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Some resources are abandoned and deteriorated; Contributing resources are in fair to good condition; other parts remain in use, including a possible salvage or repair business.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.15825-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/9702/40970251/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/96001091.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001091/1c06fa819c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001091/1c06fa819c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moores_crossing_bridge_deck.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moores_crossing_bridge_deck.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970251","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_Crossing_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6908097"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/moores-crossing-historic-district-96001091/"}