Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Mason, TX

Mason is a city in and the county seat of Mason County, an agricultural community on Comanche Creek on the Edwards Plateau, in the part of the Llano Uplift known as the Texas Hill Country.

Mason grew up around Fort Mason, which the United States War Department established on July 6, 1851, as a front-line defense against Kiowa, Lipan Apache, and Comanche raids.

The first settlers reached the Mason area in 1846, and the Fort Mason post office was transferred to the civilian settlement in 1858.

Voters selected Mason as the county seat on May 20, 1861, and Mason County itself is named for the fort.

Fort Mason was Robert E. Lee's last post as an officer in the United States Army before he resigned to join the Confederacy.

Mason's nickname is the 'Gem of the Hill Country.'

Mason County is the only place in Texas where blue topaz — designated the official Texas state gem in 1969 — is found in nature.

The largest gem-quality topaz ever found in North America, weighing almost three pounds, came from Mason County and is now displayed at Mason's Museum on the Square after years at the Smithsonian Institution.

Mason's Broad Street Bridge, a reinforced-concrete truss bridge built across Comanche Creek in 1918, is the only one of its kind in Texas.

Fred Gipson, the Mason native who wrote 'Old Yeller' and its sequel 'Savage Sam,' is honored with a bronze statue of a boy and his dog in front of the town library.