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LLANO, TEXAS. Llano, the county seat and largest
town of Llano County, is on the Llano River and State Highway 71,
seventy-five miles northwest of Austin. It was founded in compliance with a
February 1, 1856, state legislative act establishing Llano County. Tracts
donated by John Oatman, Sr., Amariah Wilson, and the Chester B. Starks
estate provided a surveyed site of 250 acres for the county seat on both
sides of the Llano River near the center of the proposed county. An
alternative site, on Wright's Creek, was proposed by the residents of the
Bluffton-Tow Valley area.
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