Round Mountain Birdtown Pioneer Strongbox — Blanco County

Joseph Bird established Birdtown, now known as Round Mountain, in 1854 in the northern part of Blanco County. James Hughes Callahan and Eli Clemens Hinds built the first permanent homes on the Blanco River that same year, among the earliest Anglo settlers in the county. Northern Blanco County pioneer-cache folklore places settler specie along the Pedernales headwaters and upland divides where Comanche raids threatened remote ranch households. Round Mountain lies north of Johnson City on the Austin–Fredericksburg corridor. Coordinates mark Round Mountain in northern Blanco County.