Manor, Texas Manor, Texas Manor City Hall Manor City Hall Location of Manor, Texas Location of Manor, Texas Manor (/ ma n r/ man-ner) is a town/city in Travis County, Texas, United States.
Manor is positioned 12 miles northeast of Austin and is part of the Austin-Round Rock urbane area.
290 at 30 20 35 N 97 33 24 W (30.343071, -97.556710), 12 miles (19 km) east of downtown Austin. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.35 square miles (18.48 km2), all of it land.
In 2006, the first parts of a central Texas tollway fitness opened, which encompassed State Highway 130, State Highway 45, and State Route 212.
The story centered on a developmentally disabled boy, played by Leonardo Di - Caprio, who regularly disrupted the town's tranquility by climbing Manor's old water tower.
Manor was initially considered as the site for a new global airport to replace the overcrowded Robert Mueller Municipal Airport; however, a several surroundingal lawsuits were brought by the Sierra Club and others, slowing evolution until an alternative was presented by the method of Bergstrom Air Force Base further south.
Manor High School The Manor Independent School District serves the City of Manor. Manor High School serves as the city's high school.
The City of Manor was the first government agency in the United States to deploy a QR Code program to disseminate knowledge to inhabitants and tourists.
There are presently 24 fixed mounted QR Code signs placed throughout Manor on various town/city landmarks and structures.
The Manor region offers abundant opportunities to appreciate the outdoors.
Jennie Lane Park in downtown Manor is the center of most community-oriented affairs such as the Manor Farmers Market, Summertime Movie Series, and Christmas in the Park.
The park also includes a swimming pool managed by the YMCA of Austin and is five minutes southeast of Manor.
Manor, who settled on Gilleland Creek west of present-day downtown Manor.
A school for boys began operation northwest of the present Manor High School complex in 1854 and was followed in 1858 by a school for girls near the present Manor Elementary School.
A postal service was reestablished in the Manor home in 1859 under the name of Grassdale with James Manor serving as Post Master.
In late 1871 as the Houston and Texas Central Railway constructed the first barns link to the Texas capital, James Manor made a donation of right-of-way which brought the line through what is now the town.
The following year the improve of Manor was laid out and named.
Following two devastating fires that finished most of the company precinct coupled with the diminish of cotton manufacturing after the arrival of the boll weevil, Manor remained a small town/city throughout most of the twentieth century.
The film What's Eating Gilbert Grape, starring actors Johnny Depp and Leonardo Di - Caprio, was filmed briefly in and around Manor, Texas as well as Austin, Texas and Pflugerville, Texas. Manor is poised to grow, developers and town/city officials agree - b | www.statesman.com a b Economic tide rises in Manor - Austin Business Journal Manor Travis : Alpha List & Contact Directory : Community Profiles : Site Selection : The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce Why the High-Tech Industry Loves Manor, Texas | Inc.com Wikimedia Commons has media related to Manor, Texas.
Manor Independent School District City of Manor's Homepage 13 - Manor, 1937, from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
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