Marble Falls, Texas Marble Falls, Texas Hill view of Marble Falls, 2007 Location of Marble Falls, Texas Location of Marble Falls, Texas Marble Falls is a town/city in Burnet County, Texas, United States.

Lake Marble Falls is part of the Highland Lakes on the Colorado River, the biggest chain of lakes in Texas. It hosts one of the biggest drag boat competitions in the United States each August. Marble Falls was established in 1887 by Adam Rankin Johnson, a former Indian fighter and Confederate general, known as "Stovepipe" Johnson for his Civil War escapades, which encompassed duping the Union army in Newburgh, Indiana, with fake "cannons," constructed from stovepipes and wagon wheels.

Johnson had viewed the natural Marble Falls amid his pre-war days as a Burnet County surveyor, and had dreamed of building an industrialized city, powered by the tumbling Colorado River, not to be confused with the river of the same name in Colorado and Arizona.

Johnson assembled a fine home, a college (soon to be home of the "Falls on the Colorado Museum") and a large factory near the falls.

Marble Falls made history in 1917 by electing Ophelia Crosby "Birdie" Harwood as the nation's first woman mayor, three years before women were allowed to vote.

When the Max Starcke Dam was instead of in 1951, the marble falls which had given the town its name were submerged under the new Lake Marble Falls.

During the last thirty years, Marble Falls has grown into the retail and entertainment center for the Highland Lakes area, and continues to attract tourists, retirees and new businesses. Marble Falls is positioned in southern Burnet County at 30 34 N 98 17 W (30.5741, -98.2782), on the banks of Lake Marble Falls.

According to the Handbook of Texas website, the former falls were flooded by the lake, which was created by a shelf of limestone running diagonally athwart the Colorado River from northeast to southwest.

A photo of the falls as they once existed can be seen at the website for the Wallace Guest House, a small-town bed and breakfast. Lake Marble Falls sits between Lake Lyndon B.

Equally noteworthy is the huge igneous batholith called Granite Mountain looming on the town's edge that secured Marble Falls' place in Texas history.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.2 square miles (31.6 km2), of which 11.6 square miles (30.0 km2) is territory and 0.62 square miles (1.6 km2), or 5.21%, is water. Marble Falls, as of December 1, 2009, is the anchor of the Marble Falls, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area.

John Arthur Martinez, second-place winner on USA Network's Nashville Star, taught English and tennis at Marble Falls High School.

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