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Webberville is a small village on Farm Road 969 in eastern Travis County, about 15 miles east of Austin near the Colorado River.

Settlement in the Webberville area dates to 1827, more than a decade before Austin itself was founded.

In 1832, retired physician John Ferdinand Webber received a Mexican land grant and established Webber's Prairie, settling there with his wife Silvia Hector Webber, an African American woman.

Webberville's post office was established in 1846 with Noah Smithwick — later famous for his memoir of early Texas — as its first postmaster, and the name was changed from Webber's Prairie to Webberville in 1853.

By the mid-1880s Webberville was a cotton and livestock shipping point with steam gristmills and cotton gins, two churches, a school, four general stores, and about 200 residents.

Webberville reported 382 residents in 1900, but its post office closed in 1903, its schools were consolidated into the Hornsby-Dunlap district in 1951, and the community dwindled to roughly 50 people for much of the 20th century.

After more than 170 years as an unincorporated community, Webberville incorporated as a village in February 2003, winning its incorporation election by a close 94-to-87 vote.

The 2020 census counted 394 residents in Webberville, almost unchanged from 392 in 2010.

Since December 2011, the village has hosted Austin Energy's 30-megawatt Webberville Solar Farm — more than 127,000 sun-tracking panels spread over about 380 acres — which was the largest active solar project in Texas when it switched on.