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BASTROP, TEXAS. Bastrop, county seat of Bastrop
County, is located in the center of the county, about thirty miles southeast
of downtown Austin. The town is at the junction of State highways 71, 21,
and 95, and on the Colorado River and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railroad. The site was first occupied in 1804, when a fort was established
at the strategic Colorado River crossing of the Old San Antonio Road and
named Puesta del Colorado. The Baron de Bastrop obtained permission from the
Spanish to found a German colony and selected the site in 1823, but
subsequently failed to establish a settlement.
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