“There are 130 homes on the National Register of Historic Homes here and it all goes back to you, the people,” Perry told a packed audience at the Bastrop Opera House.
Perry and other state officials had gathered in Bastrop to congratulate the city on being selected as one of America’s “Dozen Distinctive Destinations” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
As Nancy Wood, manager of Bastrop’s Main Street Project sat onstage, Perry turned toward her and then the audience and said, “Your ability to work as a team serves as an example to Texas as a whole.”
She added it was “Sam Houston who made Bastrop a distinctive destination with stage stops on the Old San Antonio Road.”
Perry added that Bastropians “recognized many years ago what a gem of historical significance you have here.”
She said it seem “like déjà vu” while she spoke onstage at the historic Opera House, because she was here in 2007 for the dedication of Bastrop as a Main Street City and that seemed only a short time ago.
Perry was joined by Mark Wolf, executive director of the Texas Historic Commission and Jonathon Poston, director of the southwest district for NTHP, who also praised Bastrop’s preservation efforts.