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==History== [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indigenous peoples]] inhabited the area as early as 4500 BC. Later known tribes in the area include [[Tonkawa]], [[Lipan Apache people|Lipan Apache]], and [[Comanche]].<ref name="Burnet County, Texas">{{cite web|last=Smyrl|first=Vivian Elizabeth|title=Burnet County, Texas|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcb19|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 29, 2010|date=June 12, 2010}}</ref> During the 1820s-1830s, [[Stephen F. Austin]] and [[Green DeWitt]] conducted surveying and Indian-fighting explorations.<ref name="Burnet County, Texas"/> In 1849, the United States established [[Fort Croghan]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Fort Croghan|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qbf13|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 29, 2010|date=June 12, 2010}}</ref> and in 1848, the first settlers arrived in the county, Samuel Eli Holland, [[Logan Vandeveer]], Peter Kerr, William Harrison Magill, [[Noah Smithwick]], Captain Jesse B. Burnham, R. H. Hall, [[Stovepipe Johnson|Adam Rankin "Stovepipe" Johnson]], and Captain Christian Dorbandt.<ref>{{cite book|last=Goble|first=Carole A|title=Burnet (Images of America)|year=2009|publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-7121-8|pages=9β30|chapter=Fort Croghan and the First Settlers}}</ref> In 1851, 20 [[Mormon]] families under the leadership of [[Lyman Wight]] establish a colony at Hamilton Creek, later to be known as [[Morman Mill, Burnet County, Texas|Morman Mill]].{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} In 1852, the Fourth Texas Legislature created Burnet County from [[Bell County, Texas|Bell]], [[Travis County, Texas|Travis]], and [[Williamson County, Texas|Williamson]] Counties.<ref name="Burnet County, Texas"/> The first post office was established at Hamilton in 1853.<ref name="Burnet County, Texas"/> In 1860, 235 slaves were in Burnet County.<ref name="Burnet County, Texas"/> After the war, some former slaves left the county, but many stayed. A group of them settled on land in the eastern part of Oatmeal. In 1870, the black population of the county had increased to 358, keeping pace with the growth of the total number of residents; the number of blacks had fallen to 248 by 1880, however, and the number of new white residents was such that after 1890, blacks represented less than 3% of the total population. Some found work on farms and ranches, but by the turn of the century, many had moved into the Marble Falls area to work in town. During 1882β1903, railroad tracks connected Burnet, Granite Mountain, Marble Falls, and [[Lampasas]]. [[Lake Victor]] and [[Bertram, Texas|Bertram]] became shipping-point communities. Other communities lost population as the railroad offered employment.<ref name="Burnet County, Texas"/> During the [[Great Depression]], county farmers suffered financially, but found work with government-sponsored public-works projects. The [[Lower Colorado River Authority]] employed hundreds of people for the construction of the [[Buchanan Dam|Hamilton (Buchanan) Dam]] and [[Inks Lake|Roy B. Inks Dam]].<ref name="Burnet County, Texas"/>
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