Betty Cook Pond

Betty Cook Pond is a reservoir in Travis, Texas. Betty Cook Pond is situated nearby to the neighborhood University Hills, as well as near Windsor Park.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Austin Peace Academy and Nelson Field.

Austin Peace Academy

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Austin Peace Academy is an Islamic school in Austin, Texas, serving pre-kindergarten through grade 12. As of 2016, its students originate from 19 nationalities.

Nelson Field is a multi-use stadium in Austin, Texas, located on the north side of U.S. Route 290 at the junction with Berkman Drive. It serves as home stadium for LBJ High School, Navarro High School, Eastside High School and Northeast High School.

Thinkery

Museum

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Thinkery is a children's museum in Austin, Texas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Austin and Hyde Park.

East Austin

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East Austin is a district of Austin, to the north of Lady Bird Lake and to the east of IH-35. This includes the area set aside as the "Negro district" in the infamous 1928 official city segregation plan, and "Mexicans" were informally encouraged to concentrate here.

Hyde Park

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Hyde Park is a district in Austin, Texas about a mile north of the University of Texas. It is known in Austin for being the earliest significant residential development outside the old nineteenth-century downtown city core, for containing some interesting old houses, and for being a bastion of political liberalism.