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[Essay by Laura Castro] (open access)

[Essay by Laura Castro]

Photocopy of an essay on how the Dellana family came to reside in Rollingwood, Texas. Castro talks about Condado Dellana's immigration from Italy to the United States and how he eventually moved to Texas to help build the capitol building in Austin. Years later, Condado discovered a cave in Rollingwood that produced extremely good fertilizer due to the guano from the bats that lived in the cave. He eventually bought the property that the cave was on and started selling the fertilizer to nurseries around the state.
Date: February 27, 1976
Creator: Castro, Laura
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Article for Westbank Picayune] (open access)

[Article for Westbank Picayune]

Photocopy of an article written for Westbank Picayune by Dona Price. The article goes into the addition of a grocery store to the Westbank area and what a big change that was to the community, considering that the closest grocery store that they had was miles away.
Date: July 7, 1996
Creator: Price, Donna
System: The Portal to Texas History