Austin Past and Present
Grade 3 Austin History Project
Documents List and APP Assets List
The following documents are included in this instructional sequence:
Austin History Project Unit Plan.doc – Unit Activity Planner: Gives an
overview of the unit.
Austin Past and Present Unit Overview.doc – A detailed breakdown of the
entire instructional sequence, all activities, material, timeframe, etc….
Austin Hist Proj Topics Key.doc
Austin History Project Topics.doc
Austin Over Time KEY.doc
Austin Over Time STUDENT COPY.doc
Family History Survey.doc
Timeline Checklist.doc
Timeline Events and Connections.doc
UOP_gr3_soc_st_hist_proj_cr chart.doc
UOP_gr3_soc_st_hist_proj_grading_chart.doc
UOP_gr3_soc_st_hist_proj_instructions.doc
UOP_gr3_soc_st_hist_proj_notes.doc
UOP_gr3_soc_st_hist_proj_tline draft.doc
Assets used from the computer resource, Austin Past and Present
The following is not an exhaustive list. You and your students will most likely
discover additional items to add to this list.
Geo-Tour / Downtown / Congress Avenue Bridge
Time Tour / Frontier Capital / 1839-1859
Time Tour / Biographies / Elisabet Ney or Alexander Wooldridge
Various areas students will find independently as they research their landmark /
topic.
The following portions of APP are used with the Austin History Timeline activity:
Date
1838
Event
Mirabeau B. Lamar, vice-president of Texas,
camps along the Colorado while on a
Buffalo Hunt.
1839
Edwin Waller takes charge of laying out and
constructing the town.
1841
Alphonse Dubois de Saligny, furious over
his treatment in the “Pig War”, removes the
French Legation from Austin.
1842
1845
1850
1865
1869
1871
1873
The “Archive War” reaches a climax as
Austinites foil an attempt by President
Houston to remove the Land Office records.
Texas is annexed into the United States and
Austin is named the temporary capital.
Austin wins a statewide election as the
capital of Texas for the next 20 years. A
building boom ensues.
The first telegraph message reaches Austin.
A pontoon bridge across the Colorado opens,
the first bridge to span the river at Austin.
The first railway comes to Austin, sparking
an economic boom.
Diez y Seis (Mexican Independence Day) is
celebrated for the first time on record in
Austin.
1881
Austin public schools open with 942
(September) students. Austin becomes the site of the
main UT campus.
Austin Past and
Present Connection
Time Tour: Frontier
Capital 1839-1859
Biography: Mirabeau B.
Lamar
Time Tour: Frontier
Capital 1839-1859
Biography: Edwin Waller
Time Tour: Frontier
Capital 1839-1859
Biography: Alphonse
Dubois
Time Tour: Frontier
Capital 1839-1859
Biography: Sam Houston
Time Tour: Frontier
Capital 1839-1859
Time Tour: Frontier
Capital 1839-1859
Geo-tour: Downtown:
Congress Avenue Bridge
Time Tour: Railroad and
University: 1871-1892
Biography: Richard Pease
Time Tour: Railroad and
University: 1871-1892
Time Tour: Railroad and
University: 1871-1892
1881
The capitol is gutted by fire.
(November)
1884
1888
1895
Time Tour: Railroad and
University: 1871-1892
An iron bridge across the Colorado replaces
the wooden one that collapsed in 1883.
Geo-tour: Downtown:
Capitol Complex
Time Tour: Railroad and
University: 1871-1892
The new capitol is dedicated amid 5 days of
festivities.
Geo-tour: Downtown:
Congress Avenue Bridge
Time Tour: Railroad and
University: 1871-1892
The first dam-generated current flows
through the electric system and illuminates
Austin’s 31 new moonlight towers.
Geo-tour: Downtown:
Capitol Complex
Time Tour: City of the
Violet Crown: 1893-1929
Biography: A. P.
Wooldridge
1910
1924
1940
1948
1955
1983
2001
The current concrete bridge over Congress
Avenue is constructed.
UT’s Memorial Stadium is dedicated at the
annual Thanksgiving Day football game
between Texas and Texas A & M.
The Austin dam is renamed the Tom Miller
Dam. Prior to 1938, no significant work had
been done on the dam since flood waters
damaged the incomplete structure in 1915.
Emma Long wins election to the city
council, the first woman ever to do so.
The Board of Regents opens all of UT’s
educational programs to blacks.
Microelectronics and Computer Technology
Corporation, a consortium of high
technology companies, decide to locate in
Austin.
President George W. Bush attends the
opening of the $80 million Bob Bullock
Texas State History Museum.
Geo-tour: Zilker:
Moonlight Tower
Geo-tour: Downtown:
Congress Avenue Bridge
Geo-tour: Central Austin:
University of Texas
Geo-Tour: West Austin:
Tom Miller Dam
Biography: Tom Miller
Time Tour: Town in
Transition: 1950-1975
Geo-tour: Central Austin:
University of Texas
Time Tour: Modern Austin
Geo-Tour: Central Austin:
Texas Museum