Pflugerville, Texas

Everything Pflugerville is known for

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Music in Pflugerville

Songs About Pflugerville

Pflugerville Anthem Remix (with BRZA)
Tai Nguyen
83%
"I’m from Pflugerville bitch, don’t you come outside"
Pflugerville
Austin Lounge Lizards
82%
It's Going Down in Pflugerville
Netherfriends & Tai Nguyen
82%
"It's Going Down in Pflugerville"
Pflugerville Boogie
Bill Neely
78%
"Pflugerville Boogie"
Pflugerville
Ramsay Midwood
52%
"(title) "Pflugerville" — title is the place signal"
I’ve Been Everywhere...In Texas
Brian Burns
6%
"Pflugerville"

Artists From Pflugerville

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Tai Nguyen
hip-hop

Rivers & Roads in Song near Pflugerville

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

Interstate 35 43 songs Texas Colorado River 6 songs Texas State Highway 71 2 songs Pedernales River 6 songs Blanco River 4 songs

History of Pflugerville

Pflugerville, TX RoadyGoat

Pflugerville is changing fast, but the spirit of the place remains. You still see those blankets of bluebonnets every spring, just like always. And Gilleland Creek still winds its way through town, a reminder of the land that drew the first settlers here. But lately, the talk around town isn't just about the weather or the Panthers making another run at the playoffs. It's about Tesla. The Gigafactory’s presence east of Austin has reshaped Pflugerville in ways no one could have fully predicted. Suddenly, you see more Teslas on the road than pickup trucks – well, almost. A huge percentage of our neighbors work there, and that's brought a new energy, a different kind of ambition, to the town. It's meant more traffic, for sure, and rising housing costs. But it's also brought new businesses, new ideas, and a sense that Pflugerville is really on the map now, not just a bedroom community anymore. It’s a different kind of boom than the one the German farmers experienced in the 1800s, but just as impactful in its own way.

Pflugerville, TX RoadyGoat

The community of Pflugerville gained national attention when the Pflugerville Panthers high school football team won 55 consecutive games from 1958 to 1962. This remarkable achievement put the small town on the map and remains a source of pride for residents.

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George Pfluger plats the town RoadyGoat

If you look at a map of Pflugerville, you'll notice downtown is laid out in a neat grid right beside the railroad tracks. That grid has a date on it. Henry Pfluger brought his family here from Germany around 1849, but for fifty years this was scattered farmsteads and a store or two — no real town plan at all. Then in 1904 the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad finished its line between Georgetown and Austin, and the route ran just past the settlement. That was the moment. George Pfluger and his son Albert platted a formal townsite that same year, and George donated the land for a depot and a school. Within ten years the population had doubled to five hundred. Nobody had to haul a building anywhere — the town simply stopped being a crossroads and started being a town, drawn to fit the tracks. That surveyor's decision is why Pflugerville's historic heart sits exactly where it does.

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Pflugerville - Henry Pfluger and the German Refugee Founding

1849

Henry Pfluger Sr. (1803-1867), Hessian farmer who lost his wealth in the 1848 European revolutions, sent sons Conrad and George to Texas in 1849. Henry himself arrived 1852 with $1,600, bought 160 acres east of Austin from brother-in-law John Liese (a Texas War for Independence veteran granted 960 acres). Descendants founded the town. Immanuel Lutheran Church established 1874 as the community's spiritual center.

Pflugerville

1853

Henry Pfluger (1803-67), who migrated from Germany to Texas in 1849-50, moved his large family here in 1853. Other settlers joined them, and in 1872 a school was begun on Henry Lisso's farm. Immanuel Lutheran Church was founded in 1874. Primarily a farming settlement, Pflugerville had no commercial business until 1890, when Louis Bohls built a general store. A post office was opened there in 1893 with Bohls as postmaster. In 1891 two community organizations were formed: the German-American Mutual Assurance Association, to insure townspeople against natural disasters; and "Pflugerville Schuetzen and Kegel Verein," a shooting and bowling club. The village began to grow when the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad arrived in 1904. George Pfluger (1834-1910) and his son Albert (1878-1969) platted the townsite, and George donated land for a train depot and a school. Early businesses included drugstores, groceries, a hotel, grist mill, cotton gin, ice factory, and a blacksmith. In 1907 La Rue Noton and Archie Ward started a telephone system. Farmers State Bank, chartered in 1906, became First State Bank in 1933. A newspaper, "The Pflugerville Press," was published from 1907 until 1942. In 1958-62, the Pflugerville High School football team gained national fame by winning 55 consecutive games. (1976)

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Pflugerville - Deutschen Pfest and Lake Pflugerville

1976

Deutschen Pfest: annual October festival at Pfluger Park celebrating Pflugerville's German heritage, founded 1976, ~50 years running. Lake Pflugerville: 180-acre man-made reservoir, construction began 2005 + completed 2006, fed via 16-mile pipeline from Colorado River. Park with beach + fishing piers + trail opened 2010. Serves ~30,000 residents as primary drinking water source.

Pflugerville - The Silent P That Won't Die

1849

Pflugerville leans into its silent-P name as a town-wide branding motif. Verified examples: city tourism brand 'Pfun TX' (pfuntx.com), official 'Pflugerville Pfarmers Market' (city-run, pflugervilletx.gov/717), 'Deutschen Pfest' annual festival, generic 'pfestivals' usage in city communications.

Bohls House

1913

Gottlieb William Bohls (1878-1961), the oldest of Heinrich and Julie Schroder Bohls' ten children, was born on his family's farm near this site. In 1906, G.W. married Bertha Timmerman (1883-1967), and five years later they purchased a 95-acre farm on the Austin-Hutto Road, formerly the site of the Carrington Ranch School. They lived in a small home until this two-story, eight-room house could be completed in 1913. After twelve years, G.W. sold the property to his younger brother, Otto Walter Bohls (1898-1973), and his wife, Laura Emma Anna (Fuchs) (1898-1992). Otto promoted soil conservation practices on the farm and in the area, serving as chair of the Travis County Agricultural Adjustment Administration for 13 years. Contour farming, planting cover crops, building stock tanks, rotating crops and planting new seed varieties reduced wind and water erosion and kept the soil intact during periods of drought. The Bohls family deeded the property to the City of Pflugerville in 1993 to promote and interpret the city's heritage and culture. The Queen Anne Free Classic style house features a hipped cross-gabled roof with dormer windows and fishscale shingles. Prominent elements include a wraparound porch, main door sidelights, a longleaf pine interior, and cutaway bays with wooden brackets on the front-facing parlor and side-facing dining room. Original outbuildings included a barn, two homes for farm hands, a smokehouse, an outhouse and a carriage garage. The original rain harvesting system, including a 4,000-gallon brick and concrete underground cistern and a 2,000-gallon galvanized tin cistern above ground, was the home's only source of drinking water until 1975. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2005

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Pflugerville Colored Addition

1910

The Pflugerville Colored Addition is located in Travis County on Farm Road 1825 in west Pflugerville. In 1910 black workers in Travis County who worked in the Pflugerville cotton industry and ice factory were not allowed to move into the town. La Rue Norton, a farmer who owned 1,200 acres of land west of Pflugerville, set off about an acre and sold lots to the workers at fifty dollars each. In April 1910 the settlement was placed in the county records as Pflugerville's Colored Addition. The original settlers of the Colored Addition were Pete McDade, George Caldwell, Will Smith, Ned Tyson, Willie Allen, and their families. The community built St. Mary's Baptist Church in 1910 and had built St. Matthew's Missionary Church by 1920. St. Mary's cemetery, located west of St. Mary's Church, was started in the 1920s for the burial of African and Mexican Americans . The community built an elementary school in 1928. In 1959 St. Mary's Church was rebuilt on Farm Road 1825 at the site of the elementary school, which moved 100 yards to the northwest. The school moved to Pflugerville when the school district desegregated in 1965. In 1973 St. Matthew's Missionary Baptist Church closed because of dwindling membership. The Colored Addition came to the attention of Travis county commissioners in 1978, when the Pflugerville Independent School District requested that the county maintain Lincoln Avenue, a dirt road that ran through the Colored Addition to a newly built parking lot for school buses. The commissioners, disturbed that the community's official name continued to reflect its origin under legal segregation, attempted to rename it the Western Addition. They were unable, however, to obtain legal approval from property owners to change the name. In 1990 the name was still Pflugerville's Colored Addition. The addition never held more than six families at one time, but as many as fifty-five families had lived there by 1978, when the settlement was on the verge of becoming a ghost town. No longer restricted to living in the area, some residents had moved to Pflugerville. Others chose to leave the Pflugerville area during its economic decline in the 1970s. In 1986 St. Mary's Baptist Church remained open, and the population of the addition was three. In 1989 six families lived in the addition.

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Things to Do in Pflugerville

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The Broken Spoke

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Willie Nelson's Luck Ranch

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Round Rock Donuts

Texas-sized golden donuts from a bakery dating to the 1920s — the giant 'Round Rock Donut' has drawn dawn lines and a Man v. Food cameo.
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Everything Near Pflugerville

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