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Harrison County Courthouses
County Seat - Marshall, Texas

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Former Harrison County courthouse in Marshall
The 1900 former courthouse is now the Harrison County Historical Museum.

Photo John Troesser, 6-00
Former Harrison County Courthouse, Marshall, Texas


The 1900 former courthouse as it appeared in 1939.

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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 else.

Harrison County has had five courthouses:
1839, 1848, 1889, 1900 and 1964.

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The current 1964 Harrison County Courthouse in Marshall

Harrison County courthouse in Marshall


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The Fourth Harrison County Courthouse circa 1900

Today the Harrison County Historical Museum

Date - 1900
Architect - J. Reily Gordon
Style - Renaissance Revival / Beaux Arts
Material - Granite, stone and marble

This building is sometimes compared with Gordon's 1901 McLennan County Courthouse in Waco.
1900 Harrison County courthouse, Marshall , Texas 1908 postcard


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1900 Harrison County courthouse, Marshall , Texas 1911 postcard


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1900 Harrison County courthouse, Marshall , Texas 1912 postcard


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1900 Harrison County courthouse, Marshall , Texas old postcard


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1900 Harrison County courthouse, Marshall , Texas old postcard


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1900 Harrison County courthouse, Marshall , Texas postcard

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1900 Harrison County courthouse, Marshall , Texas postcard
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The Third Harrison County Courthouse circa 1889
Destroyed by fire 1899
The third Harrison County courthouse in Marshall

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The Second Harrison County Courthouse circa 1848
Demolished in 1889
The second Harrison County courthouse in Marshall




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© John Troesser
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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