Southwest Austin - Dripping Springs Edition | July 2025

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BY ELISABETH JIMENEZ

City ocials working to rename Plantation Road in Southwest Austin

In 2018, the city’s Equity Oce released a memo listing Plantation Road as a high priority for renaming. The latest resolution directs the city manager to begin the process of identifying potential names through collaborating with council oces, community members and the Zion Rest Missionary Baptist Church, where the Rev. Elijah Kincheon, a descendent of Kincheon, served as one of the early church leaders. Looking ahead A city ordinance to rename Plantation Road must be submitted to council for a public hearing and possible action by Oct. 9. Ellis said she will work with stakeholders over the summer on the initiative.

City of Austin ocials are working toward renaming Plantation Road as part of a broader initiative to rename streets with Confederate ties. The details A resolution from council member Paige Ellis to rename the street was passed at a June 5 meeting. The street sits in a region known as Kincheonville, previously a freedmen community, established in 1865 by Thomas Kincheon. Kincheon developed the community to oer economic opportunity, community and a safe space for formerly enslaved African Americans, according to city documents. Ellis’ resolution states that the street “conjures images of the Antebellum South and a longing for an agricultural economy dependent on the forced labor of enslaved African Americans.”

Austin City Council is working on an initiative to rename city assets with ties to the Confederacy.

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