A Bit of History:

The old Round Mountain school house dates back to the 19th century, when Round Mountain was a going community, and the school house was its center of activity. You can see something of our history in this page from the old 1997 Sandy Creek Community Association website. We have some pictures of the the old schoolhouse and the people who lived made this community their home in 1939 and 1940 up here.

There’s also a nice Blogspot page on our community center from the Travis County Historical Commission.

Back around 2000, a group of neighbors gathered to clean up and rebuild the schoolhouse, which had fallen into in serious disrepair. Here’s a video of the project.

Good News!:

The Travis County and Texas State historical commissions have accepted our application to have our old schoolhouse formally designated as a Historical Building. A plaque will be set at the building, probably in the fall of 2024.

We’d like to thank Kat Howell of Mason Heritage Foundation for her work in obtaining our historical building status. Kat was our “point person” with the Texas and Travis County historical commissions, and had the knowledge of how to turn the crank on the process – but there were many people involved without whom this wouldn’t have been possible. We’d especially like to thank:

• Mary Cameron – president of the Friends of Nameless School
• Linda Hambrick – our resident historian for the Round Mountain Schoolhouse
• Genny Kercheville – friend, and author of Nameless: It’s History and It’s People

This has been a community effort which has been helped in many ways by many people. Notably, also, the Friends of Nameless School who gave us the money to apply for our 501(c)3 status, Nancy Durkin and Lannie Read who funded the marker, and the board of Friends of Round Mountain School who have met and discussed this issue for years before anything was accomplished. We’d also like to thank Dottie Brower and her family for their steadfast maintenance of the building for the past quarter century, and without whose work there would be no schoolhouse.

Here are a couple of documents relevant to our historical status:

Acceptance of the schoolhouse’s historical status:

Receipt for our historical marker:

Available Legal Documents:

1900 Deed: Original deed from Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Faubian giving the RMCC land to the community.

1964 Deed: Deed conveying our community center from the Leander School District to the trustees of the RMCC in 1964

1974 Court Order: Court order of June 25, 1974 settling a suit between the RMCC trustees (plaintiffs) and Morris and Rachael Chamberlain (defendants). This court order defines the method of succession and obligations of the RMCC Board of trustees and defines the RMCC as a Charitable Trust

1974 Deed: This deed, ordered by the 1974 Court Order, defined the the “successor” Board of Trustees

1987 RMCC Newsletter: A newsletter from the RMCC Board of Trustees to the community from May, 1987

Travis Co. CAD Tax Appraisals

The following two documents were printed to PDFs from material available on the web from the Travis Co. Central Appraisal District website.

You may have to click the URL a couple of times to get the document to load from the Central Appraisal District server.

2019 CAD Land Appraisal: Appraisal of the land on which the RMCC is situated by the Travis Co. Central Appraisal District. The URL for this document is http://propaccess.traviscad.org/clientdb/Property.aspx?prop_id=354237

2019 CAD Building Appraisal: Appraisal of the old schoolhoulse building itself by the Travis Co. Central Appraisal District. The URL for this document is http://propaccess.traviscad.org/clientdb/Property.aspx?prop_id=577800

Platt Map of the RMCC and surrounding properties.