Eanes-Marshall Ranch

The ranch house still stands, though no longer on the road. In 2001 it was moved from near Bee Caves Road and Loop 360 to the Eanes Elementary campus, where it is filled with period furnishings. Robert Eanes's family lived in it first, and his daughter Viola Eanes-Marshall raised six children there. Nearby on the campus are a wagon barn built to recall the Johnson family's ranch barn and a small museum of community artifacts, both kept by the Eanes History Center.

What the plaque says

Eanes-Marshall Ranch Alexander Eanes (1806-1888) moved to Texas from Mississippi in 1845 and acquired this ranch by 1857. In 1873 he sold the property to his brother, Robert Eanes (1805-1895), who had moved to the area following the Civil War. A log cabin built on the Eanes ranch was the first Eanes school, and the community also assumed the Eanes name. Robert Eanes sold the ranch to his son-in-law, Hudson Boatner Marshall (1862-1951) in 1883. Marshall dismantled the ranch house and moved it to a site adjacent to the nearby creek. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Barton Springs Pool — 3.8 mi
  A three-acre pool in the bed of Barton Creek, fed by the fourth-largest spring in Texas at 68 to 70 degrees, and shared with an endangered salamander found almost nowhere else.
• Mount Bonnell — 3.9 mi
  Austin's old lookout over the Colorado, named by an 1838 traveler, picnicked on by George and Libbie Custer, and reached by a 1939 flight of about 100 limestone steps.
• Harry Ransom Center — 5.1 mi
  The University of Texas archive where a Gutenberg Bible and the earliest surviving camera photograph are always on view, free, beside the papers of Watergate and the movies.
• Texas State Capitol — 5.3 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

More markers nearby

• Eanes School and Chapel — 1.0 mi
• Eanes Cemetery — 1.0 mi
• Desegregation of Lions Municipal Golf Course — 3.2 mi
• Deep Eddy Bathing Beach — 3.3 mi