AUSTIN, TEXAS AND PRESCOTT, ARIZONA—A COMPARISON OF TWO FABULOUS CITIES

Written By: Gail Clifford | Published By: FYI 50+ | January 22, 2020

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If you love Austin, you’ll love Prescott Arizona…The Connections You Never Knew

“Home is not a place…it’s a feeling.”

After recent visits to both Austin and Prescott, I realized if you love one, you’ll easily love the other, the synchronicity is astounding and you feel, well, right at home. Of course, everything is bigger in Texas! But the home town values and love for this land runs through each city like the river that feeds it.

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CAPITOL

Austin replaced Houston as capital of the Republic of Texas in 1839. Its landmark feature is the Capitol Dome designed by Detroit architect Elijah E. Myers. Austin, whose original name was Waterloo, is named after Stephen F. Austin, contains 271.8 mi² and the fourth most populous city in Texas, eleventh in the country.  https://tspb.texas.gov/prop/tc/tc/capitol.html

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Prescott, capitol of the Arizona Territory from 1864 to 1867 and 1877 to 1889, landmark feature is its Yavapai County Courthouse, designed by William N. Bowman, and the square that surrounds it. Named in honor of William H. Prescott, an historian and author popular during the Civil War who studied the conquest of Mexico and Peru, Prescott comprises 45.16 mi². http://courts.yavapai.us/superiorcourt