Population 34,170
Altitude. is 720
Established in 1850, city was named for a large round rock in
bed of Brush Creek. The site of historic St. Charles Hotel, built
in 1850. Best known as the site of killing of the notorious outlaw
Sam Bass, now buried in Round Rock Cemetery. Bass's gang plagued
stagecoaches, trains and banks in area and was the object of intensive
chase by the Texas Rangers. An informer warned the Rangers and
Round Rock lawmen of planned raid on a local bank. The Bass gang
was ambushed there on July 18, 1878. Wounded in the gun battle,
Bass died two days later.