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TRINITY
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
County Seat - Groveton,
Texas
Date - 1914
Architect - C. H. Page & Brother
Style - Classical Revival
Material - Brick
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Trinity
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Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, July 2003 |
Trinity
County Courthouse
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, July 2003 |
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The Courthouse
Cornerstone
Photo courtesy Trinity County Historical Commission. |
The Original
Trinity County Records Building
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Built
in 1908.
Designed by L.S. Green.
In 1914 C. H. Page designed the Trinity County Courthouse incorporating
this original "Records Building."
Photo
courtesy Trinity County Historical Commission. |
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The
1914 Trinity County Courthouse as it appeared in 1917
Photo
courtesy THC |
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The
1914 Trinity County Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
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Early
Trintity County motorists lined up for a photo. 1884 Courthouse in
background.
Photo courtesy THC |
Two
Courthouse Fires by Bob Bowman ("All Things Historical")
Some of the most delectable historical desserts of East Texas are
found in the yellowed documents of the thirty-plus county courthouses
scattered across the pineywoods.
One such morsel is the little-known story of two courthouse fires
in Trinity County, one of the rowdiest of our early counties. From
Anna Hester of Groveton comes a pair of old affidavits by J.P. Stevenson,
a frontier lawyer, and J.B. Gipson, the son of a county surveyor.
Both lived in the turbulent 1870s.
Their affidavits were transcribed in 1909, apparently in an effort
to clarify property deed records which may have been in dispute.
Stevenson and Gipson recalled a November, 1, 1872, fire which destroyed
most of the county records at the first county seat at Sumpter. The
only surviving documents were some criminal records of a peace justice
and the surveyor’s records of properties in the county... more
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Trinity
County Forum
Subject:
Trinity County Courthouse
I noticed that
you have the architect listed for our courthouse as L. S. Green.
That is right and wrong. Our courthouse was built in two phases.
The east wing (Records Building) was built in 1908, and was designed
by L. S. Green. It was initially built as the county records building
and is an exact replica of the Polk County Records Building, built
in 1905, and designed by L. S. Green. In 1914, the Trinity County
Commissioners hired C. H. Page and Brother to design a new courthouse
that was to incorporate the existing records building into the new
courthouse.
The old courthouse, built in 1884, which you have pictured, was
later demolished. - Susanne Waller, December 02, 2004
If anyone would like to share history or photos of Trinity County
Courthouse or towns, please contact
us.
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