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The
1900 former courthouse is now the Harrison County Historical Museum.
Photo John Troesser, 6-00 |
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The 1900 former
courthouse as it appeared in 1939.
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
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
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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. |
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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
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Postcard
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The
Third Harrison County Courthouse circa 1889
Destroyed by fire 1899 |
The Second
Harrison County Courthouse circa 1848
Demolished in 1889 |
©
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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