Eagle Pass Business Journal

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Traffic is under control towards Bridge 1. EPPD has received reinforcements!!! Merry Christmas Eagle Pass and safe travels to all !!

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When The Driskill Hotel opened in Austin on this day in 1886, it offered luxury accommodations at $2.50 to $5 per night for rooms and a full-course meal for 35 cents.

The hotel was the final enterprise of Jesse Lincoln Driskill, who built and lost multiple fortunes. Driskill came to Texas from Tennessee by way of Missouri in 1849 and entered the merchandising business in Bastrop, San Antonio, San Marcos, and Bryan. By 1857, he had switched to cattle, selling beef to the Confederacy for three years.

At the end of the Civil War, Driskill had exhausted his supplies of both cattle and Confederate dollars, but he rebuilt a new herd and achieved success again, driving his cattle north on the Chisholm Trail to market.

In 1871, Driskill and his family moved to Austin, where he proposed his hotel to the city in 1884 and offered $7,500 for the lots on Brazos Street. Construction of the brick and limestone building eventually cost Driskill $400,000. A spring freeze in 1888 killed so many of Driskill’s cattle that he couldn’t make payments on the hotel and had to sell it.

Since then, the Romanesque Revival hotel has held a prominent place in the political and social scenes of Texas, due to its proximity to the State Capitol. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.

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