Below are some helpful Round Rock resources available online and at the Round Rock Public Library.

Round Rock History Websites

• The Historic Round Rock Collection: An Ongoing History
  The Historic Round Rock Collection is a project documenting Round Rock’s history. The collection features a chronological history of Round Rock and includes Old Town, the Chisholm trail, historic places and architecture, and oral histories.
• Preservation Minute videos
  Watch video segments about the history and preservation of historic Round Rock.
• Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
  These digitized maps provide detailed property and land-use records that depict the architecture of Texas towns and cities throughout the past one hundred years. Coverage of Round Rock runs from 1885-1925.
• Handbook of Texas Online entry for Round Rock, Texas
  A good, concise historical sketch of Round Rock including mention of a few early pioneers and places. Includes bibliography.
• Texas Historic Sites Atlas 
  Check this Texas Historical Commission database for Round Rock and Williamson County historical markers.
• Texas General Land Office - History & Archives
  Search for land grants, maps, and documents throughout Texas history dating back to 1720. Coverage includes Williamson County.

Round Rock Books

History

• Historical Round Rock 
  The starting point for Round Rock history.
• Round Rock recollections 
  This collection of articles on Round Rock was done by the Round Rock New neighbors Club in 1987.
• Historic structure report, The Sansom house, #2 Chisholm Trail, Round Rock, Texas, also known as “La Cantina" 
• The hitchhiker’s guide to Round Rock
  Includes geographic and street indexes.
• Texas Baptist Children’s Home, 1950-2000: hope for generations: celebrating fifty years of service to children and families

Cookbooks

• A Touch of Class
  (cookbook) By the Round Rock Community school, 1991. 

Directories

• Cole directory for greater Austin and vicinity. 
  Includes Round Rock and Williamson County from 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001-2011.

Family or Biographical Works

• The Mather Clan, the first two hundred years.
  Seward   
  Stories of three generations of Sewards in Round Rock-Liberty Hill area.
• Three Zimmermann brothers, Oskar, Bernhard, and Franz, ancestors and descendants

Pictorial Works

• Round Rock, Texas: from cowboys to computers 
  Round Rock, Texas, USA!!! 
  

School works

• Echoes
  Round Rock history done by an honors English class at Round Rock High School in 1988.
• History of Gattis Elementary School 
• Round Rock High School Alumni Directory, 1996. 
• Whispers
  Stories and poems done by Round Rock High School students. 1982 and 1985 available.

Yearbooks
Ask for yearbooks at the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor. The number in parentheses indicates the number of copies available.

Round Rock High School Dragon
1950s	1960s	1970s	1980's	1990s	2000s
--	1960	1970	--	1990 (2)	2000
--		1971	1981	1991 (2)	2001  (3)
1952	1962	1972	1982	1992 (2)	2002 (2)
1953	--	1973	1983	1993 (2)	2003 (2)
--	1964	--	1984 (2)	1994 (2)	2004 (2)
--	1965	1975 (2)	1985 (2)	1995 (3)	2005
1956	1966	1976 (2)	1986	1996 (3)	2006
--	1967	1977	1987	1997 (2)	2007
1958	1968	--	1988 (2)	1998 (2)	--
1959	--	1979	1989	1999 (2)	2009

McNeil High School Maverick
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997    

Stony Point High School Touchstone
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005    

Other Round Rock yearbooks
Gattis Elementary Gator Tracks: 1994
Great Oaks Elementary Geckos: 1999
Canyon Vista Middle School Round Up: 1996
CD Fulkes Middle School Legend: 2000, 2008

Round Rock Microfilm

Newspapers

• Round Rock Leader
  We have brief date runs from 1929-1974 and a complete run from 1975-2005, except for 1993.

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