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James "Buck" Davenport
Early Texas rancher whose 1854 land grant on the bluffs above the Colorado River became one of the founding tracts of what would later be incorporated as West Lake Hills.
Born in Tennessee in 1826, James Davenport — known throughout Travis County as "Buck" — arrived in central Texas in the 1850s. He patented roughly 1,000 acres along the Colorado River bluffs in 1854. The ranch passed through three generations of the family before parts of it were subdivided into the modern neighborhoods that now bear the Davenport name.
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