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Location of the Burleson Homesite Property
Shown here in a Google Earth image captured a few months before a 2006 fire, the Burleson cabin replica (circled) is located is located on Ed J.L. Green Drive about 30 yards downhill from the north terminal of the old Aquarena Springs sky ride.
The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment maintains offices in the former hotel building at water’s edge. |
Once a popular theme park attraction and frequent destination for schoolchildren, the restored Burleson cabin was severely damaged by fire in 2006 and now lies in ruin within a fenced area on Ed J.L. Green Road near the old sky ride terminal.
The Burleson homesite and surrounding acreage are currently owned by Texas State University and managed under a project of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment. The primary mission of that project is water conservation, including aquatic research, sustainability, water use, and public water policy.
The Meadows Center has recently restored the area around the spring, returning it to much the same condition that existed prior to the development of the Aquarena Springs theme park. The restoration of the peninsula area having now been substantially completed, focus now widens to include the hillside above the spring, where Edward Burleson located his cabin in 1848.
You can help by communicating your interest in the historical aspects of the hillside restoration.
The Burleson homesite and surrounding acreage are currently owned by Texas State University and managed under a project of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment. The primary mission of that project is water conservation, including aquatic research, sustainability, water use, and public water policy.
The Meadows Center has recently restored the area around the spring, returning it to much the same condition that existed prior to the development of the Aquarena Springs theme park. The restoration of the peninsula area having now been substantially completed, focus now widens to include the hillside above the spring, where Edward Burleson located his cabin in 1848.
You can help by communicating your interest in the historical aspects of the hillside restoration.
