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

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…