The Palm Family
In 1848, This pioneer, her husband, and their six sons left Sweden to make a new life in Texas.
Who is Anna Palm?
This 1873 home, once occupied by an early Palm Valley settler, was relocated to downtown Round Rock in 1976 and returned to its original site in 2024.
What is the Palm House?
Settlers from Sweden who arrived in Texas in the mid-1800s helped clear brush, build log cabins, and ultimately gave their name to this community in Williamson County that still marks its roots with a Lutheran church and cemetery.
What is The Palm Valley?
This Swedish-American rancher and his wife Mary Caldwell Palm bought a limestone home in Teravista in 1892 that had been built in 1860 and remained in their family for more than a century.
Who is William Palm?
This church, originally called the Swedish Lutheran Church of Brushy, was built by Andrew John Nelson in 1861 as a log church and school. The current building was erected in 1894.
What is Palm Valley Lutheran Church?
Her Brother-in-Law, Swante Palm, was the Swedish Consul to Texas and owner of the largest private library in Texas. He donated over 10,000 books to this public university before his death in 1899.
What is the University of Texas?
This son of Anna Palm purchased land from S.M. Swenson, where he built a home and raised eight children with his wife, Carolina Nelson Palm.
Who is Andrew J. Palm?
This historic estate, part of the Palm Farm legacy, sits on the Old Settlers Association grounds near East Palm Valley Boulevard in Round Rock, alongside other preserved structures from early local history.
What is the Palm Mansion?
A major portion of the Palm Estate was bequeathed to Palm Valley Lutheran Church by The Pioneer Woman's grandchildren and eventually used to create this popular park.
What is Old Settler’s Park?
He was the first Swedish immigrant in Texas and owned over 100,000 acres of land. He donated the original land for the Palm Valley Lutheran Church and cemetery.
Who is Swante Magnus Swenson?
She established this resting place under "the tallest oak tree" for her son and fellow immigrants when there was no church cemetery nearby.
Palm Valley Lutheran Church Cemetery
All of her sons were sent to join this army during the Civil War, except her youngest son, Henning, who died in 1868
What is The Confederate Army?
The youngest son of a Swedish immigrant pioneer helped shape the Palm Valley community of Williamson County, Texas; after his death in 1863, land was set aside at his mother’s request for what became the Palm Valley Lutheran Church cemetery.
Who is Henning Palm?
This US Highway, also called US 79, is named after a small community 3 miles east of downtown that has been incorporated into the present-day City of Round Rock.
What is Palm Valley Blvd?
After following a Swedish pioneer matriarch to Central Texas, these hardy immigrants built log cabins, raised cattle, planted corn and cotton, and opened businesses to helped firmly establish which Williamson County City?
What is Round Rock?