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Robert Eanes
Early settler and rancher whose family donated the land for the original Eanes schoolhouse in the 1870s. The Eanes Independent School District and the surrounding community still bear his family's name.
Robert Eanes was among the early settlers of the hill country west of Austin. His family ranched several hundred acres in what is now central West Lake Hills, and in the 1870s donated a parcel of that land for the construction of a one-room schoolhouse — the first public building in the area. The Eanes name carried forward into the modern Eanes Independent School District, which now serves the families of the West Lake area and the surrounding hills.
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