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The long-lost memorial to Burnet County pioneer Oscar Fox has been re-installed in Lakeside Park. Contributed photo -
The long-lost memorial to Burnet County pioneer Oscar Fox has been re-installed in Lakeside Park Contributed photo -
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The Falls on the Colorado Museum is hosting a public unveiling ceremony for the Oscar Fox monument at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, at its new location in Lakeside Park.
The monument to the “Cowboy Composer” was originally located on U.S. 281 just south of the Marble Falls bridge.
When the highway was widened in the 1980s, the monument tumbled down the hill and was lost for many years.
Its new home will be near the Floyd Tillman monument on “Music Row” in Lakeside Park.
Oscar Fox re-enactor Jim Maynard plans to make an appearance at the unveiling ceremony, a day before his debut in the Legends of the Falls theatrical historic hayride in Cottonwood Shores Nov. 4.
Maynard is traveling from his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to take part in the monument unveiling and Legends events.
Grandson of early Burnet County pioneer Adolph Fuchs, Oscar Fox was born in 1879 and attended school in Marble Falls.
He composed music for popular Western songs, including “The Hills of Home,” “Home on the Range,” and “Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Dogies.”
Fuchs/Fox family descendants installed the granite monument in the 1960s.
Please join The Falls on the Colorado Museum, the City of Marble Falls, and Fuchs/Fox family members in welcoming this fully restored and important monument to its new home in Lakeside Park.