When Edwin Waller drafted the original plan for the City of Austin in 1839, he designated four blocks in the plan's grid as public squares. Three of those four blocks still exist in the modern-day downtown -- Wooldridge Square, Republic Square, and Brush Square. But one block, known as Hamilton Square, is missing.
Bound by Ninth, Tenth, Trinity, and Neches Streets, Hamilton Square was lost as a public space starting in 1900 after the city developed the . . .
