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History of the Mansion:
The origins of the Mansion at Judges Hill can be traced back to 1846
when the land was first granted to Adam Maag by the State of Texas,
just one year after it was admitted to the union, March 1, 1845. The
City of Austin was founded eight years earlier in 1837 and called
Waterloo. Dr. Thomas Dudley acquired the land in 1887 for $2500 cash.
One interesting fact is that after Adam Maag sold the land to one
Henry Thomas for $1,200 on April 9, 1856, Thomas held the land for
22 years until June 29, 1878 when it sold it to George Linn for $15,000
in gold coin of the U.S.A. Included in the sale was 640 acres of land
in Clay County, Texas previously owned by the widow of the Alamo hero,
Mrs. Almeron Dickinson. Mrs. Dickinson was the only Anglo to survive
the assault on the Alamo. In 1857, Mrs. Dickinson married Joseph W.
Hannig of Lockhart and move to Austin in 1860.
When Dr. Thomas Dudley Wooten purchased this property on June 2, 1887
from D. A. Bostick for $2500 cash, he bought approximately one acre
of land at the corner of Magnolia and Rio Grande Avenue (later Magnolia
became 19th street and later Martin Luther King Boulevard). He gave
the land and a home to be built for his son and new daughter in law
in 1898. The son Goodall Wooten and his bride picked a highly visible
corner of the property where the Mansion would be built. The Wootens
moved into their new home January 20, 1900.
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