Recent upgrades to Key Avenue; plans for the future

history of key avenue -- part eight

  • Key Avenue is blanketed with snow in this view looking north from the southern edge of town. lampasas dispatch photo, January 1973
    Key Avenue is blanketed with snow in this view looking north from the southern edge of town. lampasas dispatch photo, January 1973
  • The Lampasas version of a snowplow was utilized to clear the main drag so highway and local traffic could use the roadway. lampasas dispatch photo | january 1973
    The Lampasas version of a snowplow was utilized to clear the main drag so highway and local traffic could use the roadway. lampasas dispatch photo | january 1973
  • This 1960s-era Key Avenue parade included the 1st Armored Division Band riding in Jeeps, headed south on Key Avenue in front of what would become HEB grocery store. Horace Sargent’s real estate office and the Methodist Church can be seen in the background. lampasas dispatch file photo | jeff Jackson collection
    This 1960s-era Key Avenue parade included the 1st Armored Division Band riding in Jeeps, headed south on Key Avenue in front of what would become HEB grocery store. Horace Sargent’s real estate office and the Methodist Church can be seen in the background. lampasas dispatch file photo | jeff Jackson collection

    EDITOR’S NOTE: Lampasas historian Jeff Jackson has researched a number of local history topics. The following is the final part of a series on Key Avenue and development of the highways routed through Lampasas County.

    After many years of planning, the Texas Department of Transportation finally awarded bids to rebuild Key Avenue in 2010. This project included an underground storm sewer to carry rain…