with massive old-growth cedar tree near Morgan Creek in Burnet County

it just don't give up

with heart cedar post he cut near Cedar Mountain in Llano County.

New Braunfels

Burnet County

in Llano County

Ft. Crogan, Burnet

Kimble County

still building them this way in the cedar country of Llano County

at a ranch on Honey Creek in Llano Couinty

an old one in Kimble County

at ranch house in Llano County

a newer one in Burnet county

Kendall County

1873. The cedar came from Palo Duro canyon

near Austin, 1887

Historical Marker located near the intersection of 183 and 45 in western Williamson County

across the Colorado River, 1912

“Largest Cedar Railhead in the Southwest.”

February 1911

From Uvalde to Camp Wood

1914

for northwest Travis County, 1900, showing a number of men “hauling wood,” “mfg charcoal,” and “wood chopping.”

William and Sophia Teague’s first child, 1936

in Sussex, England, 1890. Most of the Hill Country kilns were not this large

The government paid landowners by the acre to clear the cedar

This picture is labeled “Cedar Choppers” at the Austin History Center.  I put “Cedar” in quotes because these Prohibition era trucks  look too nice to be hauling cedar.

Austin Statesman February 15, 1937 Ike Young is on the left, Hazel Hamilton (18) is in the center, and Hucel Hamilton (15) on the right. It was Hucel who picked up the gun used to kill Thomasson and then fled across the river.