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KYLE, TEXAS. Kyle is on Interstate Highway 35
eight miles north of San Marcos and twenty miles south of Austin in
northeastern Hays County. At its site the Balcones Escarpment meets the
blackland prairie; to the east there is farming and to the west, ranching.
The town was established on July 24, 1880, when David E. Moore and Fergus
Kyle (for whom the town was named) deeded 200 acres for a townsite to the
International-Great Northern Railroad. The new town drew residents and
businesses from Mountain City, three miles west, and Blanco, four miles
west. Tom Martin operated the first business in Kyle.
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