Heading to the Pecan Street Festival on 6^th Street in downtown Austin…

Why is this festival on 6^th Street yet called Pecan Street Festival?  We found our answer in the history of Austin.  In 1839 Edwin Waller laid out the Austin streets in a fourteen block grid plan with the north-south streets given Texas River names and the east-west streets given Texas Tree names – hence Pecan Street.  The tree names were changed in the late 1800s. Continue reading →