Editing Kingsland, Texas (section)

==Arts and culture==
Among Kingsland's notable places is the 1901 [[Victorian architecture|Victorian-style]] [[Antlers Hotel (Kingsland, Texas)|Antlers Hotel]], a railroad resort in Kingsland that fell into disrepair in the early 1900s, but was purchased and restored in the 1990s and reopened as the Antlers Hotel, with the Grand Central Cafe Restaurant in [[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne architecture]] and an historic railroad district.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.texasescapes.com/MikeCoxTexasTales/Antlers.htm
|title= TexasEscapes: The Antlers |author= Mike Cox |date= July 13, 2006 |publisher= TexasEscapes.com |access-date= 3 February 2011 }}</ref> The house where ''[[The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]]'' was filmed<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.texaschainsawmassacre.net/FAQ.htm |title=Texas Chainsaw Massacre (FAQs) |author=Tim Hardin |access-date=July 23, 2010}}</ref>  (the [[Texas Chainsaw House]]) is located here and has been restored as a restaurant. It was moved here from [[Round Rock, Texas]], from the site of what is now the [[La Frontera (Round Rock, Texas)|La Frontera]] development in [[Williamson County, Texas|Williamson County]] in the 1998 by the owners of the hotel, and completely renovated to become an on-site restaurant.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Killing Fields: A culinary history of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' farmhouse |first=MM |last=Pack |newspaper=[[The Austin Chronicle]] |date=2003-10-23|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A184100|access-date=2011-02-02}}</ref>

Also a favorite location is "The Slab", where the road traverses the clear Llano River as it crosses over granite slabs and boulders. Both residents and tourists come to the slab to bask in the warm sun and swim or wade in the clear water running over the granite.

Librarian Suzette Baker was fired in 2021 after she refused to remove books about transgender teens, sex education, and race, including ''[[Between the World and Me]]'' by Ta-Nehisi Coates, from the Kingsland library shelves.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/public-libraries-books-censorship/ |first=Annie |last=Gowen |date=April 17, 2022 |title=Censorship battles' new frontier: Your public library |newspaper=The Washington Post }}</ref>