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Burnet County Historical Commission

Business Owners in 1895 - a list of business names and their owners

Disasters, Murders, and Mayhem

• Indian Raids (1852-1870) 

• Burnet County Index from "The West Texas Frontier," by Joseph Carroll McConnell, 1939

• Webster Massacre (1839)

• Indian Attack, 1859, Rev. Dancer killed

• Terrible Explosion At Granite Mountain  (1896)

  • Information on People named within the Article: "Terrible Explosion at Granite Mountain", [original research by Lisa Bass, April 2004]

• Cyclone at Briggs (1906)

• McGuire Murder Trial (1899)

• James Turner Trial (1898)

• Body of Jim Powers found in the Colorado (1899)

• Explosion at Burnet Meal and Flouring Mills

• George Lacy Kills Code Phillips (1890)

• Horse Thieves Captured (1874)

• Execution list, January 1873

• D. F. Turner Killed by Ed Farmer, 1904

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Family Land Heritage Awards - List of historic farms and ranches in Burnet County.  Updated Sept 2018 with descriptions of ranches, history and locations from the Texas

Family Land Heritage Registries, published each year with award winners.

Burnet Volunteer Fire Department - officially organized in 1932

History of Burnet County - A concise synopsis of the County's history from the Texas Handbook Online

• Burnet County Reference Books FOR SALE - The Burnet County History, Vol I and Vol II; Burnet County Cemetery Records, 1852-1982; and more

  • Index of Burnet County History, Vol II, Family Histories. 344 names of pioneer families that are included in the volume.

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Historical Markers - An alphabetical list of historical markers in the county, with links to locations and transcriptions of the text of each marker. Many photos.

Jenkins Lumber Yard, 1936

Library -- History of the Burnet Library

Map of Burnet County in 1895 - see a small actual map of Burnet County as it was produced in an 1895 Atlas.

Oral Histories of Burnet County Citizens - tape and transcripts index - made during the 1970s

Oral Histories of World War II Veterans

Post Offices and Postmasters - a great list by Jim Wheat of town names where post offices were established and each appointed postmaster from 1852 - 1930

• Marble Falls Post Office - an account of how the post office began, where the route was, and who served as postmasters.  Transcribed from a 1937 newspaper article.

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Sheriffs of Burnet County - a list of county sheriffs and the dates served, plus photos of sheriffs from collection of the County Sheriff's Office

• Fugitives from Justice

  • 1878

  • 1891