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Marshall has long been famous for the elaborate holiday lighting of
their courthouse. Strictly speaking, the building is technically the
former courthouse. It is now the Harrison County Historical Museum.
The current courthouse is a modern 1964 design and is located somewhere
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The Current
Harrison County Courthouse - Marshall
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County courthouse is a modern structure of glass and brick and was
designed by the architectural firm of Turnbull, Inc. |
The Fourth
Harrison County Courthouse - Marshall
Today the Harrison
County Historical Museum |
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The
1900 former courthouse.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, December 2007
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The
1900 Harrison County courthouse dome
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, December 2007
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The
1900 former courthouse as it appeared in 1939.
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1908 postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/
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Postcard circa 1911 courtesy THC |
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1912 Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/
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Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/
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Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/
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Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/
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Postcard
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The Third
Harrison County Courthouse circa 1889 - Marshall
Destroyed by fire
1899 |
The Second
Harrison County Courthouse circa 1848 - Marshall
Demolished in 1889 |
Harrison
County History:
"Harrison
County is located in northeastern Texas along the Louisiana border.
Marshall, the county seat and largest town, is 152 miles east of Dallas
and thirty-nine miles west of Shreveport. Harrison County comprises
894 square miles of the East Texas timberlands, an area that is heavily
forested with a great variety of softwoods and hardwoods, especially
pine, cypress, and oak. The terrain is gently rolling, with an elevation
ranging from 200 to 400 feet above sea level. Northern and eastern
Harrison County, about two-thirds of the total area, is drained to
the Red River in Louisiana by Little Cypress Creek, Cypress Bayou,
and Caddo Lake. The other third of the county is drained by the Sabine
River, which forms a part of its southern boundary..." From Handbook
of Texas Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/hch8.html |
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