The Norman Falls was probably Fallsville’s most famous natural landmark. Indeed, the entire city had been named after the Norman Falls, which were first discovered by Norman G. Schmidt, the founder of Fallsville itself and a member of a group of German immigrants allowed to settle in Texas in the mid-1800s. While the Norman Falls paled in comparison to more famous waterfalls like Niagara, it was still a beautiful, awe-inspiring landmark in their own right that drew in thousands of tourists from around America and the world every year. The Norman Falls was even represented on the Fallsville city insignia. Dean and his father had gone camping at the Norman Falls State Park many times when he’d been a kid, so he was quite familiar with it.
More importantly, however, was the fact that the No
