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Plantation Road was one of several assets around Austin previously identified as a high priority<\/a> for renaming given its association<\/a> with the pre-Civil War South. Its reclassification comes several years after another Confederate-linked roadway renaming in Central Austin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last spring, council member Paige Ellis initiated<\/a> Plantation Road’s replacement by noting the original name’s relationship to<\/a> “longing for an agricultural economy dependent on the forced labor of enslaved African Americans.” The road is also located in the historic Kincheonville area, a freedmen’s farming community founded in 1865.<\/p>\n Ellis said community outreach about the renaming initiative resulted in an “enthusiastic yes” from neighbors, leading to this summer’s official update. About 53% of the more than 120 people who responded to Austin’s recent public engagement<\/a> about the proposal were in favor, according to city reporting<\/a>, while about 35% were opposed.<\/p>\n The new name will honor Wyatt, co-founder of The Black Registry of Austin Businesses in 1969 and The Villager<\/a> newspaper in 1973, according to city biographical information. He was also involved in other journalistic, community and business organizations, and was recognized as a pioneering leader and activist, according to the city.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m glad to see this about a year later taking effect, and helping us make our community better and reflecting the good parts of it and not the bad parts of it,” Ellis said July 23.<\/p>\n About 52% of dozens of respondents<\/a> to a city survey<\/a> about the renaming were in favor, with about 38% against. A Zion Rest representative also asked<\/a> Austin to consider other local roadway improvements and an extension of the new street name to cover the full Paisano Trail, although those proposals haven’t yet advanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two South Austin roadways will be renamed in honor of an historic church and a local civil rights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,1501,134,133,136850,3669,136847,136846,29981,136849,136848],"class_list":["post-388385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-city-council","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-kincheonville","tag-paige-ellis","tag-paisano-trail","tag-plantation-road","tag-southwest-austin","tag-tommie-lee-wyatt-lane","tag-zion-rest-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Zion](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785197227_376_.jpeg\")
Zion Rest Missionary Baptist Church, located in the historic Kincheonville area, will be honored with a new street name in the community. (Community Impact staff)The Paisano Trail renaming in honor of Zion Rest was launched<\/a> by council member Ryan Alter. Also located in the historic Kincheonville area, the church was founded in the early 1900s and has had its current facilities in place for decades.<\/p>\n