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TRINITY
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
County Seat - Groveton, TexasTrinity
County has had 5 courthouses:
1850, 1857 - Sumpter
1874 - Pennington
1884,
and 1914 - Groveton
Groveton
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Trinity
County Courthouse
Photo courtesy Jim
King, July 2003 |
The Present
Trinity County Courthouse -
Groveton, TexasDate
- 1914
Architect - C. H. Page & Brother
Style - Classical Revival
Material - Brick
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 |
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The Courthouse
Cornerstone
Photo courtesy Trinity County Historical Commission. |
The
Original Trinity County Records Building |
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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
Photo courtesy
TxDoT |
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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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