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In
1831 Austin received a second land grant; the two grants, Mina
Municipality, took in almost all of what is now Bastrop County.
The district was presumably named in honor of Spanish general
Francisco Xavier Mina. In 1834 the vast municipality, comprising
all or part of sixteen present-day counties, was established by
the government of Coahuila and Texas, and the town of Bastrop
also took the name Mina.
When
Texas became a republic, Mina Municipality assumed its place as
one of twenty-three original counties. In 1837 the Congress of
the Republic of Texas changed the county name to Bastrop in
honor of the baron de Bastrop, an early Dutch settler and
allowed the town to revert to the name as well. Congress also
began whittling away at the boundaries of the huge county; in
1840, when Travis County was formed, Bastrop County shrank
almost to its present dimensions.
Cities and towns
Bastrop
Elgin
Camp
Swift
Smithville
Circle
D-KC Estates
Wyldwood
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