Llano, Texas

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Music in Llano

Songs About Llano

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Clint Allen Janisch Band
81%
"Llano"
Sing 'til I Stop Crying
Pat Green
80%
Llano
Luke Olson
78%
"Llano"
Last Llano Piece
Andrew Weathers
77%
"Last Llano Piece"
My Texas
Josh Abbott Band
50%
"Eaten cooper's down in llano"
Texas Queen
Rich O'Toole
10%
Texas Forever
Kevin Fowler
7%
"Brisket at Cooper's"
Sing ’Til I Stop Crying
Pat Green
4%
"out west of llano"

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Llano

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Llano.

Texas State Highway 71 2 songs Texas Colorado River 6 songs San Saba River 2 songs Pedernales River 6 songs Blanco River 4 songs

Musical Heritage

Lantex Theatre RoadyGoat

1927

The Lantex Theatre opened its doors in Llano back in 1927, and a ticket would run you thirty cents. Think about that — a single-screen movie house on the square, with a cooling system dreamed up before air conditioning was even a thing, keeping folks comfortable through a Hill Country summer. Almost a hundred years on, it never went dark. It still throws first-run films up on the screen, still books concerts and stage shows. And once a month the house lights come up for the Llano Country Opry, where the picking and the singing fill a room that's been doing exactly this since Calvin Coolidge was in the White House. Thirty-cent tickets built it. The music is what kept it alive.

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History of Llano

Llano, TX RoadyGoat

Llano's always been a place where time seems to slow down, a real Hill Country haven. Ranching's in our blood, tourism keeps us going, and Friday night lights at Llano High are practically a religion. But lately, things haven’t been quite so peaceful. It all started with the library. See, the Llano County Library system, a point of pride for generations, got caught in a real crossfire a few years back. Books were challenged, removed – titles that some folks saw as inappropriate for kids. It sparked a debate that split the town right down the middle, a real culture clash between those wanting to preserve traditional values and others pushing for more diverse and inclusive representation on the shelves. Meetings got heated, friendships were strained, and even now, you can still feel the tension simmering under the surface at the Dairy Queen or the hardware store. It’s a reminder that even in a place as seemingly timeless as Llano, the outside world, with all its complexities, eventually finds its way in.

The Pittsburgh of the West that Wasn't RoadyGoat

On the north side of the Llano River the street signs give away a dream that never got built. Birmingham. Pittsburgh. Bessemer. In 1886 iron ore turned up at Iron Mountain in the northwest corner of the county, and Llano went wild with speculation. Promoters christened it the Coming Pittsburgh of the West. The Llano Improvement and Furnace Company platted a whole industrial district across the river and promised an iron furnace and foundry, a dam, an electric plant, even a streetcar line. The Austin and Northwestern Railroad raced a line in and reached the north side in 1892. Population supposedly touched seven thousand. Then the assays came back: outside of granite, the county's minerals simply were not there in quantities anybody could work at a profit. The furnace was never built. Only a small dam and the street lights ever got finished, the company went broke around 1894, and a run of suspicious fires — probably set to collect insurance on unprofitable buildings — finished off much of what the boom had raised. Insurers blacklisted the town for years afterward. Granite, not iron, turned out to be Llano's fortune. Those steel-town street names are the monument to the other version.

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Llano, TX RoadyGoat

Llano is known as the 'deer capital of Texas', boasting the highest density of white-tailed deer in the United States. This natural feature makes the city a hub for hunting during the deer season and a significant part of its identity.

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Frank Teich

1883

(Sept. 22, 1856 - Jan. 27, 1939) A native of Germany, Frank Teich studied under master German artists and sculptors before coming to the United States in 1878. By 1883 he was established in San Antonio as an accomplished stonemason and artist. His supervision of work on the State Capitol led to other jobs, including construction of the Tarrant County Courthouse and the creation of numerous Confederate memorials and other monuments throughout the South. In 1901 he founded Teich Monument Works near Llano, which resulted in the development of the area's granite production industry. He is buried in the Llano Cemetery.

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Dillard Cooper

1836

South Carolina native Dillard Cooper came to Texas in Jan. 1836 with Capt. John Shackelford’s Red Rovers, landing at Copano Bay and joining Col. James Fannin’s command. Following the Texians’ defeat at the Battle of Coleto Creek on March 20, the wounded Cooper was among many soldiers taken prisoner at Goliad. One week later, Mexican troops shot and killed more than 300 prisoners; Cooper was among a handful who escaped. He and companions spent two weeks traveling at night through enemy lines and abandoned settlements to reach Texian forces at the Brazos River. Cooper lived in Hays and Colorado counties before moving to farm with his stepson Samuel Stoudenmier in Llano and San Saba counties by 1878. Cooper died in 1896. 				(2008)

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Enchanted Rock

1536

Enchanted Rock is a spectacular granite pluton just west of State Highway 965 near the Gillespie-Llano county line in southern Llano County (at 30°30'N, 98°48' W). The granite dome rises some 385 feet above the streambed of nearby Sandy Creek to a maximum elevation of 1,825 feet above mean sea level. This great monadnock is the largest pink granite monadnick in the United States. It is part of a rough, segmented ridge, which is in turn part of the surface expression of a large igneous batholith of middle Precambrian material intrusive into earlier metamorphic schists and gneiss. This intrusive granite was exposed after later sedimentary rock deposition and extensive erosion. In 1992 a University of Texas geophysics researcher, Ian W. D. Dalziel, linked Enchanted Rock geologically with granite peaks in Antarctica. The name Enchanted Rock derives from Spanish and Anglo-Texas interpretations of Indian legends and related folklore, which attribute magical and spiritual properties to the ancient landmark. According to one nineteenth-century writer, "the Indians had a great awe amounting almost to a reverence" for the rock ( see ENCHANTED ROCK LEGENDS ). The first European to see Enchanted Rock was possibly Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , who traveled through this area before 1536. The rock was visited and described by many during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Capt. Henry S. Brown , who came from Green DeWitt 's colony on a punitive Indian expedition in 1829, appears to have been the first Anglo-Texan to visit the location. William B. DeWees described the rock in 1834. Other writers describe an Indian encounter of Captain John (Jack) Coffee Hays at Enchanted Rock. The rock has also been the subject of paintings by such artists as Hermann Lungkwitz . Enchanted Rock was the subject of a natural-area survey published by the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs in 1979. The site was acquired by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in that year and was opened as Enchanted Rock State Park ( see ENCHANTED ROCK STATE NATURAL AREA ) in March of 1984.

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Enchanted Rock Legends

1750

Enchanted Rock , a granite dome in southwestern Llano County about twenty miles north of Fredericksburg, has long been the center of various legends. The local Comanche and Tonkawa Indians both feared and revered the rock, and were said to offer sacrifices at its base. One Indian tradition holds that a band of brave warriors, the last of their tribe, defended themselves on the rock from the attacks of other Indians. The warriors, however, were finally overcome and killed, and since then Enchanted Rock has been haunted by their ghosts. Another legend tells of an Indian princess who threw herself off the rock when she saw her people slaughtered by enemy Indians; now her spirit is said to haunt Enchanted Rock. Yet another tale tells of the spirit of an Indian chief who was doomed to walk the summit forever as punishment for sacrificing his daughter; the indentations on the rock's summit are his footprints. Finally, there is the story of a White woman who was kidnapped by Indians but escaped and lived on Enchanted Rock, where her screams were said to be audible at night. The Indian legends of the haunting of Enchanted Rock were probably bolstered by the way the rock glitters on clear nights after rain, and by the creaking noises reported on cool nights after warm days. Scientists have since theorized that the glittering is caused either by water trapped in indentations in the rock's surface or by the moon reflecting off wet feldspar, and the creaking noises by contraction of the rock's outer surface as it cools. A number of stories involve rumors of great mineral wealth to be found at Enchanted Rock. Spanish explorers believed it was one large chunk of silver or iron. They also sought legendary gold and silver mines nearby, and some early Texans believed that the lost "Bowie Mines" were in the vicinity west of Enchanted Rock. Some gold has in fact been mined near Enchanted Rock, but not enough to be commercially profitable. According to an account written in 1834 the rock was once supposed to be of platinum. One of the most enduring and romantic stories involving Enchanted Rock is that of a young Spanish soldier, Don Jesús Navarro, and his rescue of the Indian maiden Rosa. Navarro supposedly came from Monterrey to San José y San Miguel de Aguayo Mission in San Antonio in 1750. At the mission he met and fell in love with Rosa, the Christian daughter of the Indian chief Tehuan. But Rosa was kidnapped by a band of Comanches bent on sacrificing her to the spirits of Enchanted Rock. Her daring lover followed them there and managed to rescue her as she was about to be burned at the stake. Another tale, given official credence when the state of Texas commemorated it with a plaque near the summit of Enchanted Rock in 1936, relates a heroic episode in the life of Capt. John Coffee Hays . Cut off by Comanche raiders from his company of Texas Rangers on a surveying trip in the fall of 1841, Hays took refuge on Enchanted Rock and singlehandedly held off the Indians in a three-hour battle that ended when the frustrated Indians fled, convinced even more firmly than before that Enchanted Rock was possessed by malevolent spirits.

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The Llano County Jail

1895

This building was erected in 1895 by the Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing Co. of St. Louis, Mo. The gray granite for the exterior was quarried in the county. The red roof of the Romanesque revival jail provided the building its nickname, and prisoners often spoke of staying over at the "Red Top." The first floor was used by the jailer for his office and living quarters. The second floor had four cells and two drunk tanks. The third and fourth floors housed the gallows. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1979

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Things to Do in Llano

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Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que

Coopers is the last great example of the Texas cowboy style of barbecue where you walk up to an open outdoor pit and point at whatever cut you want. The…
quirky 0.3 mi away
The Rock Found Nowhere Else on Earth

In the granite hills north of Llano there is a rock that exists nowhere else on the planet. Llanite is a brown rhyolite porphyry shot through with sky-blue…
quirky 18.9 mi away
Enchanted Rock

A massive pink granite dome rises four hundred feet out of the Hill Country north of Fredericksburg. Tonkawa and Comanche peoples believed the rock was haunted…
nature 18.9 mi away
Enchanted Rock

A massive pink granite dome sacred to Comanche. Eerie creaking at night.
nature 19.9 mi away
Longhorn Cavern State Park

A cave system carved out of Hill Country limestone by an underground river that vanished thousands of years ago. The walls are polished smooth where the water…
historical 0.3 mi away
The Pittsburgh That Never Was

In 1886 someone discovered iron deposits at Iron Mountain in northwestern Llano County and the town lost its mind. Investors poured in and streets were named…
quirky 0.3 mi away
The French Mineralogist in the Bank

In 1898 a French immigrant named N.J. Badu bought the former First National Bank building in downtown Llano and turned it into his home. Badu was a…
historical 0.4 mi away
The Treaty That Opened the Hill Country

In 1847 John O. Meusebach leader of the German settlers in Central Texas rode into Comanche territory and did something no Texan had managed before — he…
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