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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.
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