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The county organized in 1919. [4] Bailey County history is highlighted in the Muleshoe Heritage Center located off U.S. Highways 70 and 64 in Muleshoe. The Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge was founded in 1935 and is the oldest such refuge in Texas. Bailey County once was one of 30 prohibition or entirely dry counties in Texas, but is now a wet ...
The oldest continuous site still inhabited by a county courthouse is in Liberty County, where its courthouse has stood—although rebuilt—since 1831. [ 15 ] In 1971 and 1972, two Texas Courthouse Acts were passed, which require the county to notify the Texas Historical Commission (THC) of any plans to remodel or destroy historic courthouses ...
The current structure is the third courthouse to have been built for the county. The original courthouse, built in 1807, was a small structure made of stone. [ 2 ] James P. Bailey , who was responsible for the construction of Old Main at Geneva College became the architect of the new courthouse after the second one was destroyed by a fire in 1883.
Court was temporarily moved across High Street to Walling Hall, a two-story building located on the site of the first courthouse. The county treasurer, recorder, auditor and surveyor all moved to ...
During the nineteenth century, professional judges gradually replaced volunteer magistrates as the primary adjudicating authority to decide court cases. [6] Counties gradually grew smaller as western areas were settled with lower population density, but residents still expected to access county services within a reasonable travel distance, and fewer business people and plantation owners had ...
On May 4, 1841, the county commissioners met the governor’s officials and fixed the location of the new courthouse on Third Street (Court Street), facing the public square (Central Park).
The courthouse was then replaced by another two-story brick building in 1848 costing $6,500. In 1851 a wooden statue of Patrick Henry was placed on top of the courthouse in honor of his governance of the state of Virginia in 1776 when the county of Monongalia was created. This statue is currently standing in the turret of the present courthouse.
This is the third installment in a three-part series on the history of Wayne County's courthouses. The red brick Federal-style courthouse in Wayne County's seat of Honesdale is a landmark opposite ...