Updated September 25, 2023 Copyright 2011-2023 Susan Burneson. All rights reserved. Please talk with us before reproducing any website content. Our series on Central Austin street names—how they were named and what some of them once were called—continues. KAREN AVENUE—Named for a niece of Dr. Joseph S. Koenig. (See Koenig Lane, below.) KOENIG LANE—The first known description of the street appeared in the Austin American-Statesman on November 21, 1936: “the public lane sometimes known as … Read more
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