Marathon, TX

Marathon is a census-designated place in Brewster County, Texas, United States. The 2020 census counted 410 residents. As of 2012, Marathon services tourists traveling to Big Bend National Park. In 1927 local rancher Alfred S. Brewster County is within the Odessa College District for community college. The through line in Marathon is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Marathon makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Gage commissioned El-Paso architect Henry Trost to build a hotel in Marathon.