MORMON MILL COLONY. The abandoned site of Mormon Mill is on Mormon Mills Road five miles north of Marble Falls and ten miles south of Burnet in south central Burnet County.  Morman Lyman Wight founded the colony in 1851 with a group of about 20 families.  Wight's band broke away from the rest of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in protest against Brigham Young's leadership after founder Joseph Smith died.  They later sold the Mormon Mill property to Noah Smithwick who opened a store and a school.  A post office was there by 1856, with John R. Hubbard as postmaster.  Smithwick eventually sold the place to Hubbard; other owners after that were Samuel E. Holland, Joshua T. Moore, and Price Kinser. 

The post office closed in 1875, and in 1901 the mill closed down.  The place is now in private ownership and all that remains of the old colony is the Mormon cemetery.

More detailed history can be found at Handbook of Texas Online,  http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/uem4.html