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Former Masonic Building, now The Williamson County Courthouse is thought to be inhabited by a female ghost
Gumbo’s North.
Haunted Buildings
in Georgetown
(1895) TheCobblestoneAntiques
Building, now Dragonfly Sage
Tales and Treasures, located at
712 S. Austin Avenue, has a ghost
by the name of Lee Ann.
(1892) Formerly Chupa Rosa
Mexican Imports, now Mesquite
Outfitters, located at 704 S.
Austin Avenue, has a ghost by
the name of Luther Saint Paul
Miller.
(1894) The historic firehouse, jail tumultuous past has innervated a female
and city hall, now Georgetown
Art Center, located at 816 S. Main
Street, has a ghost in the form of
a tall, slender cowboy who walks
the Square and has been sighted
coming down the stairs.
(1900) Formerly the Masonic
Building, now Gumbo’s North,
located at 701 S. Main Street, has
had strange happenings such as
drawers opening and closing,
and flatware being moved when
no one is around.
(1889) The M.B. Lockett Build-
ing, soon to be Noble Pig Sand-
wich Restaurant, located at
119 W. Seventh Street, has had
strange occurrences such as the
front door locking and unlock-
ing itself and chairs rearranging
themselves.
(1911) The Williamson County
Courthouse, located at 710 S.
Main Street, has a female ghost
in a long dress who comes down
the stairs, and books with pages
that turn on their own.
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in a long dress.
GEORGETOWN GHOSTS The ghost of a slim cowboy has been
sighted on the stairs of the Georgetown
The current courthouse, constructed in Art Center.
1911, has had a tumultuous past, surviv-
ing three major renovations and many erished state and Georgetown recover
modifications, including the demolition from the Civil War. Youthful trail hands
of its key architectural features in 1966. on mustangs gave a Texas flavor to the
With the assistance of the Texas His- entire range cattle industry of the Great
torical Commission and the dedication Plains and made the cowboy an enduring
of preservation-minded county citizens folk hero. Perhaps the cowboy ghost at the
and officials, the fifth courthouse of Wil- old fire house/jail was a Texas cowpoke
liamson County has been returned to its whose soul got lost on the Chisholm Trail?
original 1911 splendor, once again becom-
ing a focal point of the county. Perhaps its Continued on the next page
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Not necessarily related to the paranor-
mal, learning that the Chisholm Trail
ran right through Georgetown on what
is now Austin Avenue conjures images of
cowboys herding thousands of longhorn
cattle and mustangs through town as they
crossed the San Gabriel River on the way
to Fort Worth or Kansas.
The Chisholm Trail was the major route
out of Texas for livestock. Although it was
used only from 1867 to 1884, the long-
horn cattle driven north provided a steady
source of income that helped the impov-