GEORGETOWN, a city of central Texas, U.S.A., 25m. N. by E. of Austin, on the Meridian highway and served by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the Missouri Pacific railways ; the county seat of Williamson county. The population in 1930 was Williamson is one of the leading cotton counties of the State. North and west of the city are extensive forests; to the east is the black-land belt ; and there are mineral springs and large deposits of building stone near by. Georgetown is primarily an academic centre, the seat of South-western university (Metho dist Episcopal, South), formed in 1873 by the consolidation of four pioneer Methodist institutions of the State, founded in 1840, 1844, 1848 and 1856 respectively. The first settlement here was made in the year 1848.