Oscar Robertson - Flower Mound Heritage Walk - Flower Mound, TX
N 33° 03.934 W 097° 04.897
14S E 679088 N 3660191
A sign on the Flower Mound Heritage Walk provides a little history about Waketon pioneer, Oscar Robertson, who once owned the land where this shopping center stands. He was a farmer, barber, vendor, and self-taught veterinarian.
Waymark Code: WMRTJN
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/03/2016
Views: 1
The Flower Mound Heritage Walk is located in the Robertson's Creek Shopping Center, and can be found behind the Starbucks. Today, Waketon is part of Flower Mound, and besides Mr. Wakefield's old house (northwest of here), Waketon Road is just south of here, about the only remnants of what once was. The sign features an inset of Oscar and Eva Robertson, and it says:
"Like Waketon pioneers before him, Oscar Robertson arrived from Alabama in 1891 when he was nine years old. His wife, Eva Lester (daughter of Waketon resident C.B. Lester) was born in Waketon in 1889. In 1905, at the age of sixteen, she married Oscar.
The couple moved to a farm near Waketon Road. They had three children: Sudie, Eulis and Lester. Together they raised watermelons, cotton, hogs, cattle, chickens and geese. To further provide for the family, Oscar became the community barber and produce vendor in downtown Dallas.
In addition, Oscar was known as the volunteer community veterinarian who gained his knowledge of animal anatomy by reading veterinary books. For amusement on Saturday nights Oscar would accompany his son Lester, an accomplished guitar player, with banjo music of his own. Neighbors nearby would often join in the music-making and fun. Oscar owned the land where Robertson's Creek now stands from the early 1920's until his death in 1963."
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Location: Flower Mound Heritage Walk
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