Moore's Crossing Historic District

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.