Did I go through your Texas town?

Ah, so you came around hare? But you're not from around hare, are ya? Well, you're certainly welcome to visit hare.

Where in the heck is Hare? Highway 79 South goes through my town but I've never heard of Hare. Is it in Texas?

Maybe it is just a "Hare" off of Hwy 79?

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&&csz=Hare+TX+&Get%A0Map=Get+Map

Good bbq in Taylor, BTW.

I know where Ma Hare is or is that Mexia?

Good one, 5s!!

Hey, I found out where Hare is! It is located on FM 1331 45 miles northeast of Austin in eastern Williamson County.

SoutherNo1,

According to the route you mentioned, you DID go through my hometown on your way to Hare if you came through Palestine on Highway 79 South.

And I am so glad that I now know where Hare, Texas is.

I most certainly did go through Palestine. I think that's where we noticed a shift to row cropping vs. cattle ranching. Could be where we saw the first cotton gin, and where the country just opened up. I could live in Texas.

Souther~come on down

We'll barbeque a side of beef to welcome you, then sit down and part hare's over our favorite baseball teams.......


ohhhhhhhhh....i know that was baddddddd.....

Unless you are a member of the Hare Krishna cult, in which case you will have no Hare to part. But you know what they say about those guys, Hare today & gown tomorrow.

I wish I had posted on this "hare" board before going to Texas. I could have gotten some good tips on eatin' joints to try. I was surprised the cattle ranch we visited didn't raise longhorn beef. Can't remember the breed, but it's all grass fed. They have their own label.

Longhorns are probably a pretty small percentage of the beef raised in Texas. Although I heard they are coming back some.

Beefmaster, Santa Getruidas, etc. are probably some of the more common breeds now.

Be sure to holler if you make it back down.

I have lived in Williamson County for over 20 years, and I have never heard of Hare before. Learn something everyday.

HARE, TEXAS. Hare is on Farm Road 1331 forty-five miles northeast of Austin in eastern Williamson County. The origin of the town's name is disputed. Local folklore maintains that early settler William Caesar, who bought land in the area in the 1880s, said the place was named for the abundant cottontail rabbits in the vicinity. Subscribers to this theory claim that the community was also known by the nickname "Fuzzy." Other sources state that the community was named after a pioneer family whose surname was Hare. Hare's first school was built in 1888, and the Firm Foundation Church was established there the following year. The settlement also had doctors, a music teacher, and a Woodmen of the World lodge, as well as a blacksmith, a drugstore, a grain company, and a slaughterhouse. The Hare post office operated from 1900 to 1904. Lou Ella Miller of nearby Laneport edited the Laneport and Hare News for about two years beginning in 1923. Hare reported a population of fifteen in 1933 and seventy from 1940 through 1990. The Hare school was consolidated with that of Thrall in 1957. In the mid-1980s Hare had a cooperative gin, a general store, and a farm supply and machinery repair shop.

Now you know all you would ever want to know about Hare.