Marble Falls is a city in Burnet County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city population was 7,033.
Lake Marble Falls is ration of the Highland Lakes on the Colorado River, the largest chain of lakes in Texas. Marble Falls was founded by Adam Rankin Johnson in 1887, a former Indian fighter and Confederate general.

Marble Falls was founded by Adam Rankin Johnson in 1887, a former Indian fighter and Confederate general, known as “Stovepipe” Johnson for his Civil War escapades, which included duping the Union army in Newburgh, Indiana, with fake “cannons,” constructed from stovepipes and wagon wheels. Johnson had viewed the natural Marble Falls during his pre-war days as a Burnet County surveyor, and had dreamed of building an industrial city, powered by the tumbling Colorado River, not to be embarrassed with the river of the same name in Colorado and Arizona. Despite a “friendly fire” incident which blinded him close the grow less of the Civil War, General Johnson followed through as soon as his dream, facilitating the construction of a railroad to affable Granite Mountain in 1884, then (with ten partners, including one son, one nephew and two sons-in-law) platting the townsite and selling lots, beginning July 12, 1887. Johnson built a fine home, a college (soon to be house of the “Falls on the Colorado Museum”) and a large factory close the falls. The town grew to a population of 1,800 within ten years.

Marble Falls made history in 1917 by electing Ophelia Crosby “Birdie” Harwood as the first woman mayor in Texas, three years previously women were allowed to vote.

When the Max Starcke Dam was completed in 1951, the marble falls which had resolution the town its broadcast were submerged below the extra Lake Marble Falls. While the town’s economy struggled through the drought of the 1950s, a other economy based on tourism and retirement began to mount up in the 1970s. During the last thirty years, Marble Falls has grown into the retail and entertainment middle for the Highland Lakes area, and continues to attract tourists, retirees and additional businesses.