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Watterson Hall
Honky-tonk and dance venue · Red Rock
Watterson Hall is a honky-tonk and dance venue in Red Rock, Texas, with live-music and country-dance information when programmed. Find official links, directions, and current listings.
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Watterson is an unincorporated community in Bastrop County named for Charles Coffin Watterson, who settled there with his wife Martha in 1852 to farm and raise livestock; the Wolfenbargers and others followed. The hall on Watterson Road was known for years as Big Annie's. It closed for a time and was reopened in 1986 by Annie's son LeRoy Wilhelm and his wife Betty, and the Wilhelm family runs it still. It is a plain old country dance hall with a big wood floor, a burger window, live bands most weekends, and big dances at Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's.
History sources checked August 29, 2026.
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- It used to be called Big Annie's, and the family that runs it now are Annie's descendants. Source
- Sandra Bullock danced here: the hall played the Cherry Hill Dance Hall in Hope Floats (1998). Source
- The burgers come with a ticket and a table number, wrapped in paper in a paper boat, about forty-five minutes after you order at the window inside the door. Source
- In 2019 the burgers were $3.50 and the beer was $2.00. Source
- It is a genuinely all-ages room: teens, pre-teens and toddlers on the floor and at the tables alongside the adults. Source
- Do not lock the third stall from the door in the ladies' room; it jams. The recovery procedure, per a visitor who learned it too late: unlock, jiggle, push the door further closed, jiggle again, pull. Source
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