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San Marcos is a city located in Hays county Texas, and is the Hays county seat. The population was 47,181 at the 2006 census. San Marcos is home to Texas State University-San Marcos, and is the only known habitat for the endangered Texas Blind Salamander. In 1851 General Burleson, William Lindsey, and Dr. Eli T. Merriman took possession of a 640-acre section of the Juan Veramendi grant and laid out the town center. Tarbox and Brown stagecoaches linked San Marcos with Austin and San Antonio in 1848, and the town began its development as the commercial center for the cart trade between area farmers and ranchers and coastal commission merchants. www.tshaonline.org www.ci.san-marcos.tx.us