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GAINES
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
County Seat - Seminole, TexasGaines
Count has had three courthouses:
1906, 1919 and 1955 |
Date - 1919
Architect - Sanguinet & Staats
The Gaines County
Courthouse was drastically remodeled in 1955.
Architect - Styles, Robert,
Gee & Messersmith
Style - Modern
Material - Concrete & limestone |
Historical
Marker (Location: US 180 and Hwy 214)Gaines
CountyNamed for
James L. Gaines, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, this county
was formed out of Bexar County in 1876. Anglo settlement of the area began about
1895, and the county was formally organized in 1905. Seminole was established
as the county seat that year, and a courthouse was built in 1906. Ranching and
farming were the most prominent and profitable occupations until the mid-1930s,
when they were eclipsed by oil production. Gaines County encompasses 1,479 square
miles, and Seminole and Seagraves
are its two largest cities.
1989 |
Gaines
County Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Courtesy TXDoT |
Gaines
County Courthouse after the 1955 remodeling
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/
%7Etxpstcrd/ |
Gaines
County Courthouse stone carving
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, 2007 |
Dedication
plaque showing courthouse erected 1919
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, 2007 | |
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