The town of Bastrop was formally established on June 8, 1832, as the principal settlement in the Stephen F. Austin Little Colony of 1827. The founding grant, signed by Mexican Land Commissioner Jose Miguel de Ariniega, recognized the special nature of the locale as the "place on Colorado River where it crosses the road which goes from Texas (San Antonio) t0 Nacogdoches..considering it to be a very suitable site for the founding of a new town. Bastrop now represents a blending of the old and new.
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