In Memory of The Pioneer Builders

The school remembered here burned twice. Greenwood Masonic Institute, a three-story building that opened in 1867, was run by the Masonic lodge until 1881 and then by the Cumberland Presbyterians as Round Rock Institute. The Handbook says it burned on April 9, 1883, and a two-story replacement went up on College Hill. Local citizens ran the school until it passed to the public schools in 1888. The College Hill building burned in 1913. The fire department's history places the new building between Old and New Round Rock.

What the plaque says

In Memory of The Pioneer Builders In memory of the pioneer builders of the Greenwood Masonic Institute, 1867-1881, one quarter mile west and Round Rock Institute, one half mile south, 1881-1891, under auspices Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1881-1887, and the Southern Presbyterian Church, 1887-1891, "Built for the People by the People" of Round Rock and vicinity. Erected by the State of Texas - 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Round Rock — 0.5 mi
  A table-shaped stone in Brushy Creek gave Round Rock its name in 1854; the Chisholm Trail crossed the creek near it, and Old Town stayed behind when the railroad pulled the town east.
• Inner Space Cavern — 6.3 mi
  A Georgetown cave found in 1963 when highway engineers drilled test holes, holding Pleistocene fossils and 72-degree rooms that visitors reach by an artificial tunnel.
• Williamson County Courthouse — 8.3 mi
  The fifth Williamson County courthouse, a Beaux Arts building by C. H. Page, rises over a Georgetown square of more than 50 Victorian-era buildings.
• Mount Bonnell — 15 mi
  Austin's old lookout over the Colorado, named by an 1838 traveler, picnicked on by George and Libbie Custer, and reached by a 1939 flight of about 100 limestone steps.

More markers nearby

• The Round Rock — 0.5 mi
• Otto Reinke Building — 0.6 mi
• Sam Bass' Death Site — 0.6 mi
• Round Rock — 0.6 mi