History

Marble Falls is on the Colorado River in southern Burnet County. The falls for which the town was named were used as a landmark by travelers and were referred to as the "great falls" or the "marble falls" of the Colorado River as early as 1817.

In 1925 a dam was built to supply electrical power to the Marble Falls Textile Mills Company. The facility was used by Insull Companies in 1935 to supply power to the Hamilton Dam project. Max Starcke Dam, which formed Lake Marble Falls, was constructed in the early 1950s. Unfortunately, the natural falls were destroyed by the formation of the new lake, but the Marble Falls community benefited from the increased recreational and municipal water supply. Marble Falls served as the principal commercial center for numerous subdivisions and resorts that were built along the lakes after the 1960s. Population estimates for Marble Falls hovered around 1,000 during most of the first half of the twentieth century; after the late 1940s and early 1950s, however, the number of residents increased steadily. In 1940 the population was 1,021; but more people moved to the area to take advantage of lakeside subdivisions, the population and the supporting commercial center grew accordingly: Marble Falls had and an estimated 4,007 residents and 218 businesses in 1990.

Stone to build the State Capital was quarried from Granite Mountain  by convict labor.  Rock from there has been shipped all over the nation.

Our Choice?

We chose the name “Marble Falls” because it so perfectly described the inlay of the woman pouring the waterfall while standing on marbled rock.  Since the falls unfortunately no longer exist, the art can tell the story instead.