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 City of Double Horn Texas
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About Our City

The City of Double Horn Texas is a General Law Type B municipality located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country.  On December 6, 2018 the citizens of Double Horn subdivision and the surrounding area voted to incorporate to protect their  property rights and quality of life from the onslaught of aggregate/mining operations moving into the area.  On December 11, 2018 the City of Double Horn was officially re-established in Burnet County. 


Historical Note: 

Double Horn was at the headspring of Double Horn Creek, south of the Colorado River in Burnet County and fifty to sixty miles northwest of Austin. The town was formed in 1855 by Jesse Burnam  (or Burnham), Levi Fowler, and others. The creek and town were reportedly named after an incident in which a pioneer found the remains of two bucks with interlocked antlers. The Francis Chapel or Frog Pond school, with William H. Holland as its first teacher, was located on the Colorado River; in 1855 among its students were the children of Noah Smithwick. The school, later known as the Double Horn School, was moved near Grid Iron Creek and then to Double Horn Creek. A post office was established for the community in October 1857, with Holland as the first postmaster. In 1884 Double Horn had a population of fifty along with the school, a cotton gin, and two churches. By 1896 its population had dropped to twenty-five, and a physician named Yett practiced there. The Double Horn post office was discontinued in 1911. The cotton gin and gristmill on Grid Iron Creek was later moved to the junction of Grid Iron and Double Horn creeks. A blacksmith shop and store were also nearby. The Double Horn school was still shown on the 1936 county highway map, but all traces of the community and school were gone by the second half of the twentieth century.


  

Citation:

Frasier, M. and Tilloson, C. (n.d.). DOUBLE HORN, TX | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). [online] Tshaonline.org. Available at: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvd33 [Accessed 13 Mar. 2019]. 


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City Council Members

Mayor

Cathy Sereno

Email: Mayor@doublehorntx.org (Term exp. 2023)

Council Members

James E. Millard  alderman.millard@doublehorntx.org (Term Exp. 2022)

R.G. Carver  alderman.carver@doublehorntx.org (Term Exp. 2022)

Bob Schmitz  alderman.schmitz@doublehorntx.org (Term Exp. 2023)

John Osborne   alderman.osborne@doublehorntx.org (Term Exp. 2022)

Tom King: alderman.king@doublehorntx.org (Term Exp. 2023)

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Don't know which Alderman to reach out to? All Council Members maybe reached through the City Secretary or by requesting contact through the "Contact Us" page on the website.

City Secretary

Karen Maxwell 

Email: citysecretary@doublehorntx.org

Office Hours

Our office hours are Tuesday thru Thursday, noon- 2pm or by appointment.

The City of Double Horn

Physical and Mailing: 103 Vista View Trail, Ste 100, Double Horn, TX 78669 Office Hours are tuesday thru Thursday noon - 2pm, or by appointment

NEW NUMBER-830.201.4042

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