It’s one of the rare places at the heart of the increasingly connected “Texas Triangle” — Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston — that has held on so tightly to its timeless identity.
Founded in the 1830s, this unincorporated community in Austin County might be home to 50 residents, spread thinly around the intersection of the Union Pacific railroad tracks and FM 949.
It's a small enough place that everybody really knows everybody else, and many of them are related. Some have lived here for going on a century.
The best history flows from a mix of personal memory, oral tradition, the written and printed record, along with rigorous yet empathetic questions and a sense of broader historical context.
All these come together in Cat Spring.