Founded by the Augustana Lutheran Synod in 1904, Trinity Lutheran College was located in Round Rock after synod representatives chose the town because of an offer of a well, 14 city lots, and freight concessions on building materials hauled by the International & Great Northern Railroad. Its cornerstone for a three-story native stone school building was laid on July 13, 1905, and with Dr. J.A. Stamline as president, the first session opened on Oct. 2, 1906. The college began with four faculty members, 48 academic students, and 11 students enrolled in the music departments, and total enrollment rose to 96 during the first year. Its successive presidents were Alfred Anderson from 1909 to 1914, Theodore Seashore from 1914 to 1921, Dr. J.A. Stamline and Oscar Nelson as ad interim presidents from 1921 to 1923, and Harry A. Alden from 1923 to 1929. Although it achieved state accreditation in 1920, the school failed financially, and in 1929 it merged with Evangelical Lutheran College, founded in 1891 at Brenham and moved to Seguin in 1912, to become Texas Lutheran College. On the vacated Round Rock campus, the Lutheran Welfare Society opened Trinity Lutheran Homes on Oct. 9, 1929, to care for children and aged persons. In 1972, only one of the former college buildings still survived.