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Houston
County Courthouse
County Seat
- Crockett, TexasHouston
County has had five courthouses:
1838, 1851, 1869, 1883
and the current 1939
courthouse
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County Courthouse today
Photo Courtesy Barclay
Gibson, April 2006 |
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County Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
Houston
County CourthouseFrom
Oddities
by Mike Cox:
"Even
during the Depression, it’s hard to imagine a 55-year-old building being sold
for only $1.
But that’s what the Commissioner’s Court of Houston County
sold their 1883-vintage courthouse for back in 1939. There was a catch, of course.
The new owner of the structure had to agree to tear it down immediately so
make room for construction of a new courthouse. The county found a buyer, who
presumably recouped his investment by selling material salvaged from the building,
and the building was razed.
County officials conducted their business
in the nearby Crockett Hotel until the new courthouse was completed. That one,
a stone, Moderne-style structure which cost $200,000 to build, still stands on
the square in Crockett."... more
Crockett
Hotels
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painting of 1883 Houston County courthouse displayed on second floor of the current
courthouse. Photo courtesy
Terry Jeanson, February 2006 |
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Crime
doesn't pay (but you get to wear some pretty nice clothes)
Photo Courtesy
Barclay
Gibson, April 2006 | |
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