Marker Inscription
Ethnic Heritage - Black
Historic Place
Kerr Community Center
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About this site
Kerr Community Center is a historic place in Bastrop, Bastrop County, dedicated in 1978. It is one of 81 historic places documented in Bastrop County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 296 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.1085, -97.3120 near Bastrop. The nearest cataloged historic site is Kerr, Beverly and Lula, House (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Ploeger-Kerr-White House, House at 1308 Fayette St., and MKT Depot (Gone).
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2078003339. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Kerr Community Center, originally Kerr Hall, is a two-story wood-frame building erected in 1914 by Beverly and Lula Kerr on a lot behind their Bastrop home. During the era of segregation it served as the social and cultural hub for Bastrop's African-American community, hosting performers such as blues pianist Roosevelt 'Grey Ghost' Williams, and during World War II it operated as a USO post for Black soldiers stationed at nearby Camp Swift. Local citizens formed the Kerr Center Association to buy the hall from the Kerr estate in 1946, and the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgcommunityimpact.com
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