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Hudson Bend, TX Real Estate
Hudson Bend prospered and by the 1890s the town had a church and a school. Hudson's descendants remained in the area and the community revolved around farming and agriculture until the Marshall Ford Dam (Mansfield Dam) was completed in the early 1940s. With the creation of Lake Travis the community of Hudson Bend was reduced by half and the population slowly transformed from agriculture to residential. Farmland became housing communities and area businesses popped up. Today Hudson Bend is a community of over 3000 retirees, families and Austin commuters. Lake Travis Independent School District provides education for the children of Hudson Bend. The district has 8 area campuses and 5500 students. The district is highly regarded with recognized and exemplary ratings for several Lake Travis ISD campuses. The district is continually setting and meeting educational goals while the students of Lake Travis ISD are scoring well in state testing. Lake Travis ISD offers a well rounded curriculum with an abundance of educational tools and programs as well as extracurricular activities and excellent team and individual sporting opportunities that help students thrive, grow and learn. Housing in Hudson Bend is an exciting and enticing mixture of older vacation homes and new family friendly homes. Home construction in the area has been ongoing since the early 1960s and the median price for a home in Hudson Bend is just under $300,000. Many of the new homes in Hudson Bend cater to an active outdoor lifestyle of lake living. The designs and architecture may have changed over the years but the objective has always remained the same--building a beautiful and amenity filled home that incorporates with its surroundings and is the hub for an active family. The homes in Hudson Bend fill this bill. Families, empty nesters, retirees and other residents of Hudson Bend enjoy the amenities and conveniences builders over the years have incorporated into these lovely lakeside community homes. The community is fortunate to be centrally located to Austin while at the same time a world away. Hudson Bend enjoys a multitude of local businesses that provide all the necessities for an enjoyable and comfortable life and all within a stones throw of this quiet and tucked away lake community. But when the city beckons, Austin is a short drive away. Enjoy the quiet community of Hudson Bend while the city of Austin and all its benefits are within minutes of your front door.
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Greater Austin Real Estate
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Nestled along the shores of Lake Travis, Hudson Bend is just 16 miles northwest of downtown Austin. The area was first settled in the 1850s by Wiley Hudson and his family of 8 children and two brothers. The family hailed from Arkansas (some say Missouri) and came to the Colorado River area with land grant in hand. They were a family of farmers and corn their crop. By the 1860s four families lived in the area.
