Round Top, Texas Round Top, Texas Location of Round Top, Texas Location of Round Top, Texas Round Top is a town in Fayette County, Texas, United States.
Later the town was retitled "Round Top", since the postmaster lived in a home with a round tower. Portions of Nassau Plantation were purchased by the Adelsverein, and settlement by German immigrants began 1845 to 1847; these pioneer began buying up the small-town farms and the town lots.
Joel Walter Robison, a fighter in the Texas Revolution and later a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Fayette County, was originally buried at the Florida Chapel Cemetery near Round Top but was re-interred in 1932 in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. Round Top is the smallest incorporated town in Texas with a full service enhance library, the Round Top Family Library; and the smallest incorporated town in Texas with a small-town historic district, territory use and architectural controls. Round Top is positioned in northeastern Fayette County at 30 3 54 N 96 41 48 W (30.065060, -96.696614). It sits on a hill between Cummins Creek to the southwest and Rocky Creek to the east, tributaries of the Colorado River.
Texas State Highway 237 passes through the center of town, dominant northeast 22 miles (35 km) to Brenham and southwest 16 miles (26 km) to La Grange, the Fayette County seat.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town of Round Top has a total region of 0.97 square miles (2.5 km2), all of it land. In the town, the populace was spread out with 10.4% under the age of 18, 11.7% from 25 to 44, 37.7% from 45 to 64, and 40.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $43,125, and the median income for a family was $50,625.
Round Top, Texas: Festival Hill Concert Hall Round Top Antiques Fair, outside gathering of antiques dealers drawing enormous crowds each spring and fall Round Top is the home of the earliest building in Fayette County, Moore's Fort, which was moved there from close-by La Grange.
The town is served by the Round Top-Carmine Independent School District.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Round Top town, Texas".
"Bethlehem Lutheran Church, White Street, Round Top, Fayette County, TX" (data pages).
Texas State Historical Association.
Town of Round Top "The Original Round Top Antiques Fair".
The Original Round Top Antiques Fair.
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