Marlin, Texas Marlin, Texas Marlin Mineral Water Pavilion, 2011 Marlin Mineral Water Pavilion, 2011 Location of Marlin, Texas Location of Marlin, Texas Falls Community Hospital in Marlin Citizens State Bank in downtown Marlin First United Methodist Church at 411 Coleman Street in Marlin First Baptist Church (1928 sanctuary) at 309 Coleman Street in Marlin Marlin is a town/city in Falls County, Texas, United States.
Marlin has been given the nickname "the Hot Mineral Water City of Texas".
The town/city of Marlin is positioned 4 miles (6 km) east of the Brazos River, which runs through the center of the county.
The low falls on the river southwest of present-day Marlin was the site of Sarahville de Viesca, established in 1834 by Sterling C.
Before Falls County was organized, the settlement of Marlin already had established private schools.
A tuition school, Marlin Male and Female Academy, was positioned on Ward Street in 1871, north of the enhance square.
The Marlin Independent School District was established in 1923.
The two school districts consolidated in 1968 into the Marlin Independent School District.
Even with not officially going over 8,000 (the biggest population was recorded by the official US Enumeration at about 7,900 in both 1950 and 1980) Marlin did get many tourists from around the nation for its famous mineral water, which was believed to heal any sickness or pain, by bathing in it.
Bath homes were opened around the town of Marlin so citizens could come and takes bathes in the mineral water, after it was identified in 1892 amid the search for an artesian well.
The Cincinnati Reds baseball team held spring training in Marlin in 1907. The New York Giants baseball team (now the San Francisco Giants) held spring training in Marlin from 1908 to 1918. In 1929, Conrad Hilton assembled his eighth Hilton Hotel in his chain in Marlin, the nine-floor, 110-room Falls Hotel, which could be seen for miles from the town/city limits of Marlin.
Across the street was the Marlin Sanitarium Bathhouse.
When in about 1930 the Moody family of Galveston bought the Marlin Hilton Hotel from Conrad Hilton's first venture into his floundered hotel business, the Moody's bought and tore down the Arlington Hotel to eliminate any competition.
Mineral water now can only be obtained from a fountain outside the Marlin Chamber of Commerce.
By the mid-1900s, Marlin had a bottling company, stock pens, a brickyard, a turkey-processing plant (building can still be seen on Williams Street/South Business Highway 6), a saddlery, a water crystallization plant, and a pottery plant.
At the census in 2000, Marlin had a populace of 6,628, an increase of 242 citizens from 1990, when Marlin had a populace of 6,386.
The populace of Marlin had declined to 5967 inhabitants as of 2010.
A styrofoam business that had been open in another building in Marlin's declining industrialized park caught fire and the remains were demolished.
Connally Veteran's Affair Hospital, a five-floor building in the residentiary region of Marlin, positioned at the corner of Ward and Virginia streets, closed in 2005, losing more than a hundred jobs as the economy in Marlin continued to struggle.
By 2009, different census estimates had said that Marlin's populace had decreased by 400 to 800 citizens .
An article in the Waco Tribune-Herald reported that Marlin could grow, having noted the establishment of a $10-million water plant.
The Heart of Texas Council of Governments granted the town/city of Marlin $35,000 to remove fifteen dilapidated buildings and structures in the town, which encompassed 300 tons of debris. Over 6 miles (10 km) of water lines were constructed on 20 streets in 2011. The town/city also started and instead of a 500,000-gallon water fortress project.
In 2011, the town/city brought back its Annual Music and Blues Festival, and raised cash to revamp the town/city baseball fields and revive the City Little League, which thriving 160 kids that year. Marlin is positioned in east-central Falls County at 31 18 29 N 96 53 35 W (31.307975, -96.892975). Texas State Highway 6 runs along the easterly edge of the city, dominant northwest 30 miles (48 km) to Waco and southeast 56 miles (90 km) to Bryan.
Texas State Highway 7 runs through the center of town as Bridge Street and Live Oak Street, dominant east 16 miles (26 km) to Kosse and west 10 miles (16 km) to Chilton.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.6 square miles (11.8 km2), of which 4.5 square miles (11.7 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 1.09%, is water. Texas State Highway 6, also known as Williams, Craik Streets in town/city limits.
Texas State Highway 7, also known as Bridge, Live Oak Streets in town/city limits.
Marlin and Falls County are served by the Marlin Municipal Airport, positioned 4 miles (6 km) northeast of the center of Marlin.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the Marlin Unit, a transfer facility for men, in the City of Marlin.
The unit opened in June 1992 and was transferred to the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) in May 1995. When it was a part of TYC, the facility, titled the Marlin Orientation and Assessment Unit, served as the place of orientation for kids of both sexes being committed into TYC from the facility's opening in 1995 to its transfer out of TYC in 2007. In September 2007 the facility was transferred back to the TDCJ. The 2007 conversions of the Marlin unit, to home 600 adult prisoners, had the possibility of grade the economy of Marlin.
Around that time Texas officials were examining the possibility of converting a former Veterans Administration medical center in Marlin into a prison unit for psychiatric patients. Hobby Unit, a prison for women positioned southwest of Marlin in unincorporated Falls County and titled for former Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby. The United States Postal Service operates the Marlin Post Office. The City of Marlin is served by the Marlin Independent School District.
The town/city of Marlin has had a several newspapers.
The current one that has been serving Marlin since 1890 is the Marlin Democrat, https://marlindemocrat.com issued every Wednesday.
To this day, The Marlin Democrat and The Rosebud News remain the only active newspapers in Falls County.
Marlinites have appreciateed the revival of the Marlin Music and Blues Festival since 2011. Originally the Wood Street Blues Festival from 2003 to 2005, the event was held in late May on consecutive days with respect to musician Blind Willie Johnson, a former resident of Marlin. In May 2013, after a hiatus, the famous Marlin Festival Days returned to the town/city park. Infamous (2006) starring Sandra Bullock; took place around Falls County Courthouse and run-down homes of Marlin.
Danario Alexander, wide receiver who presently plays for the San Diego Chargers; born in Marlin and graduated from Marlin High School in 2006 Dan Kubiak state representative, graduated from Marlin High School in 1957 Rapson, first manager of the Grand Rapids Hotel and manager of a small store outside of Marlin Tomlinson Hill, an unincorporated improve just 5 miles (8 km) west of Marlin, is titled for his family.
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