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Georgetown provides an interesting array of tourist attractions. Known as the Red Poppy Capital of Texas, it hosts the annual Red Poppy Festival, which includes a 5k race, festival food, live entertainment, kids village, poppy parade and a corvette car show. The city’s candle factory is a combination of a manufacturing plant and retail store that is one of only three factories in the United States where candles are still hand-dipped. Visitors are always welcome to watch the tall, satin-finish tapers and radiant basket candles take shape. The factory also makes votives, pillars, novelties, and container candles. The Inner Space Cavern is Texas’ most accessible cavern and provides a spectacular display of rock formations and Ice Age relics.

Georgetown is on the edge of the Texas Hill Country, with three branches of the beautiful San Gabriel River running through town, which includes the "Blue Hole" swimming area. There are numerous lakes in the area offering a wide variety of options. Lake Georgetown lies adjacent to the city limits. For outstanding crappie, bass and cat fishing, nearby Lake Granger offers ample opportunity. Lake Buchanan is a 30-mile long lake that covers 23,060 acres that is popular for all types of water recreation and is home to the Vanishing Texas River Cruise and the Fall Creek Vineyards. The Lake LBJ/Wirtz Dam facility was originally called Granite Shoals. The dam was constructed in 1949-1950 and was renamed for Alvin Wirtz in 1952, the "father" of the LCRA. The reservoir is 2.15 miles long and covers 6,375 acres. It is popular for all water sport recreation. Lake Austin is more than 20 miles long and covers of 1,830 acres. The lake splits the north and south parts of Austin and sits in the south side of the downtown area. In addition, to all types of water recreation, there are also hiking and biking trails along the lake. Other lakes include Marble Falls, Lake Travis and Inks Lake.

For those who prefer to stay on land, the Georgetown area features numerous golf courses. Private courses include the Berry Creek Country Club and the Georgetown Country Club. Public courses include Forest Creek Golf Club, Blackhawk Golf Club and Crystal Falls Golf Course. Del Webb’s Sun City Legacy Hills and White Wing golf courses, also both public courses, are located at the Sun City, Georgetown development. This retirement community provides numerous cultural and recreational opportunities, as well as a large variety of clubs and activities at their multi-million dollar Village Center for the active adult lifestyle. Georgetown is recognized as one of the premier retirement areas in the U.S.

All of the amenities of a major metropolitan area are just minutes away in Austin, including Dell Computer’s corporate headquarters. Austin has its own professional symphony, ballet and opera companies; dozens of theaters, dance companies, vocal ensembles, and orchestras producing events year-round. Art museums, galleries galore and beautiful gardens replete with sculptures ease and please the eye with so many enticing shapes and colors. Austin is hailed as the "Live Music Capital of the World," with hundreds of venues offering music of all genres and tempos.

By the time spring rolls around, Austin is awash in arts festivals incorporating music, food, the great outdoors or the great club scene, and all facets of the arts. Austin cuisine melds flavors from throughout the world, served in some of the friendliest restaurants around.

Situated on the Chisholm Trail along the edge of the gently rolling hill country just north of Austin, Georgetown was formally established in 1848. The story relayed to historian W.L. Mann by his great grandfather, Washington Anderson, tells of Georgetown’s beginnings.

Once home to roving bands of Tonkawa Indians and the meeting site to Sam Houston and his governing peers, Georgetown’s history is as interesting as it is varied.

Anderson and the four other men assigned the task of locating a county seat were enjoying a brief respite under a large oak tree, when Anderson’s cousin and prodigious landowner, George Washington Glasscock, Sr., rode up on his mule. Sensing a quick solution to their task, Anderson spoke up, “George, if you’ll give us all the land between here and the San Gabriel River, we’ll make this the county seat and name the town after you.” His cousin agreed, promptly donating 173 acres, with his partner Thomas B. Huling, to establish what was to become a well-preserved link to Texas’ bygone days.