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The 1914 Crosby
County Courthouse
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Photo
courtesy Terry
Jeanson, February 2007 |
Date - 1914
Architect - M. H. Waller, Fort
Worth
Style - Texas Renaissance
Material - Brick and concrete |
Historical Marker
Text
CROSBY COUNTY
COURTHOUSE
Crosby
County, created in 1876 and organized 1886,
had its first county seat at Estacado
(founded 1879 by a colony of Quakers). It was on a mail and stage
road, in the northeast corner of the county. Freight hauling of materials
was slow. County offices were in dugouts, shacks and wagons for two
years, until the first courthouse could be completed in 1888.
The second county seat was established in 1890 at Emma
(named for the fiancee of R. L. Stringfellow, one of the town's promoters),
nine miles west of here. The courthouse at Estacado
was taken down, moved and rebuilt at cost of $3,000. It served 20
years.
When the Crosbyton-South Plains Railroad was built in 1910, Emma
was four miles off its route. Crosbyton
won an election as the new county seat, and Julian Bassett (one of
the founders of Crosbyton) donated
a site for the courthouse. The county court met in the schoolhouse
until the building of the present courthouse and jail in 1914. County
judge at that time was Pink Parrish. Commissioners were John K. Fullingim,
W. E. McLaughlin, J. A. Noble and R. M. Wheeler.
This commemoration is by the 1965 Commissioners Court. County judge,
Cecil Berry; Commissioners: Leilan Caddell, Curt Hendrick, Jack Henry,
W. C. Odom.
1966 |
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Crosby County
Courthouse Historical Marker
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, February 2007 |
CROSBY COUNTY
COURTHOUSE
Two years after
Crosby County voters
chose the new town of Crosbyton as
their county seat in 1910, the courts finally resolved the subsequent
election disputes, and the Crosby County commissioners set about the
business of constructing a new courthouse. Fort
Worth architect M. L. Waller designed this building in the Neo-Classical
style, featuring a full-height entry with triangular pediment supported
by columns. Contractor S. Goodrum of Sweetwater
completed the courthouse in late 1914, and it has served as the center
of politics and government in Crosby County since that time.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2000 |
The SE corner
of the courthouse.
The jail was located in the SE corner of the basement until 1934.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, February 2007 |
Crosby County
Courthouse courtroom
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, February 2007 |
Drawing of the
courthouse near the front entrance
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, February 2007 |
The Crosby County
Courthouse as it appeared in 2002
Photo
courtesy Barclay
Gibson, May 2002 |
| Courtesy
www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
The Crosby County
Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo
courtesy TXDoT |
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