Jasper County Courthouse - Jasper, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 30° 55.284 W 094° 00.000
15R E 404453 N 3421319
Jasper County has had three courthouses: 1837, 1854 and 1889. This 1889 courthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Waymark Code: WM12WJ3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/26/2020
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Historical Marker:
Jasper County was one of the original twenty-three counties created when the Republic of Texas was established in 1836 following the Texas Revolution. Bevil settlement, established by pioneer John Bevil about 1824, became the seat of government and was renamed Jasper in 1835 in honor of American Revolutionary War hero William Jasper.
The first county courthouse on this site, a two-room log structure, was destroyed by fire in 1849. It was replaced by a two-story building, completed about 1854.
The present courthouse, constructed of locally made red brick, was completed in 1889. One year later a tower with a four-sided clock and bell was added. Additional wings were built onto the east and west sides of the structure in 1931, and the entire courthouse was covered with stucco. An adjacent office building was erected by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1940, and the courthouse clock tower was removed in a 1957 remodeling project.
The clock tower was restored sometime in the 1990s.