Collections
Each collection is curated by a community group — a historical society, a school, a church, a family. The archive grows as new groups contribute.
Cedar Choppers
The cedar-cutting families who lived in the rough hill country west of Austin from the late nineteenth century into the mid-twentieth, supplying fence posts and shingles to the growing city. Their settlements long predated the Eanes School and most of the modern subdivisions, and their descendants are still part of the community.
Churches of the West Lake Area
Religious institutions of the West Lake area — congregations, founding members, and the communities that built them. Begins with the founding of the Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church and continues with the broader landscape of Eanes-area churches.
Eanes History Center · Westbank Community Library District
The full Eanes History Center collection — letters, oral histories, books, photographs, illustrations, and family records — donated to and held by the Westbank Community Library District. Westlake History is the official digital home for this collection.
Eanes History Group
A community group documenting the history of the Eanes Independent School District, the families and ranches that surrounded it, and the institutions that grew out of it. Lectures and oral histories are recorded in partnership with the WestBank Library.
Rollingwood
The City of Rollingwood, Texas — a small residential community immediately east of West Lake Hills, organized around Rollingwood Park and the Western Hills Optimist Club. Distinct from West Lake Hills as a city, but historically and culturally intertwined.
Schools of the West Lake Area
Schools and educational institutions of the West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, and Eanes ISD area — from the original Eanes Frame School in 1896 through the Eanes Rock Schoolhouse and the modern Westlake High School campus.
Westlake Historical Society
The founding collection of this archive: photographs, deeds, oral histories, and meeting records gathered and donated by members of the Westlake Historical Society over the past several decades.