“Pflugerville was founded by families from around the world:
German, African American and Hispanic families that came here in the 1800s
until the early 1900s. These families were looking for fertile land, freedom
from religious and political oppression, and for opportunities to work and to
buy land. Most found what they came for, so they stayed and built a strong
community.” (Pflugerville, A Heritage to Rmemeber,2007, Friends of the
Pflugerville Community Library)
Today, families move to Pflugerville to get away from the inner
city of Austin. They come for the relatively inexpensive housing costs, and for
the good schools. Pflugerville has miles
and acres of City Parks, connected by walk/bike paths. Most subdivisions have
direct access to a segment of these paths. We have a new lake that provides
recreational opportunities and supplements our water supply.
Pflugerville has
room to grow since the surrounding countryside is farmland and ranch land. Our
son always loved seeing cows beside the road on his way to high school! Some of
that farmland has been developed into subdivisions. And, most recently, the new,
big shopping center to our north has become a mecca for shopping in
Pflugerville, and a boom for our tax base! We now can keep our shopping “local” (our Walmart is in front of the water tower in the horizon). We even have a hospital emergency room!
From a population of 5,000 in 1993 to a whopping 50,000 in 2012, we have seen lots of changes in our community. We moved to Pflugerville in June of 1993 from a rental house in north central Austin. We’d had enough of the costs and crowds in Austin, and were looking for good neighborhood schools for our son. Over the years our family has spent countless hours in the city park system, riding bicycles, walking, swimming at the community pool, playing in the park playscapes, wading in the creek that flows through much of Pflugerville, collecting bugs, watching rabbits and birds, hearing the great horned owl hooting on our chimney at night and finding the debris of his meal on our deck the next day, fishing and enjoying the Texas out-of-doors. We’ve learned that Spring has one good week and Fall has one good week, and we’d better get out to enjoy those few days before the hot and the cold!
a bakery (owned by Dar's 5th grade teacher - who inherited an out-of-this-world family cookie receipes),
an antique store,
a fantastic eating place called European Bistro (owned and operated by two mature sisters from Hungary),
and an old hardware store converted to a BBQ place. We used to buy our nails, tools, and wood here.