East Riverside-Oltorf, Austin, Texas

[3] Prior to the 20th century, much of the East Riverside-Oltorf area was part of the Del Valle land grant, originally purchased from the government of Mexico by Benjamin Milam in 1825.

The land grant was later deeded to Santiago Del Valle, a government official for Coahuila y Tejas during the Texas Revolution.

[4] In 1850, Hugh Tinnin purchased 500 acres of land south of the Colorado River, west of the present-day Pleasant Valley Road.

Approximately 100 slaves cut timber from the shore and built a large house and cabins in the present-day Travis Heights.

[7] The land between Pleasant Valley Road and the Country Club was formerly a cattle farm owned by Fagan Dickson and Roberta Crenshaw.

In the 1970s, the City of Austin partnered with the University of Texas to construct off-campus housing for students between East Riverside and Lakeshore Drive.

In the 1990s, the East Riverside-Oltorf neighborhood became one of Austin's biggest ports of entries for immigrant households, primarily from Mexico, Latin America, and Asian countries.

[3] In November 2006, the City of Austin created the East Riverside Combined Neighborhood Plan, which called for the redevelopment of the neighborhood's aging apartment complexes, increasing density and walkability, and proposing mixed-use development to serve a proposed high-capacity transit corridor including light rail or bus rapid transit along East Riverside Drive.

In 2015, Oracle Corporation purchased and demolished an apartment complex between Lakeshore and Elmont Drive to build its new office campus, which opened in 2018.

East Riverside between South Lakeshore and Pleasant Valley Road is lined with apartments, strip malls and local businesses anchored by a 102,000 square-foot H-E-B on the eastern edge.

[15] The Roy G. Guerrero Colorado River Metropolitan Park is nearly 400 acres and contains athletic fields, wooded trails, and a disc golf course.