Elreeta Weathers wrote: > >From pages 81-83 of my "People and Places, Gazetteer of Hamilton > County, TX. " > > Cutting and pasting into an e-mail does create havac with > formatting. > > The town of Hamilton has always had a square, but the first court > house was not erected until 1878. Hamilton courthouses have > included: Thank you very much for the information concerning the records involved in the fire, and for the history of the courthouses. I'm looking at a map which is the plat of the town of Hamilton, dated 19 June 1860, and signed by James A. McBarron, Chief Justice. Apparently it is on file in the Comptrollers Plat Book in Austin. I printed the map from a CD I recently obtained. The Fort Worth Genealogical Society has just published, on CD, Footprints, 1957-1997. It contains all of the society's quarterly publication from 1957 through 1997, and is indexed by Topic and by Surname. It was there that I found the map of the city of Hamilton dated 1860. The series of articles and maps was in the society's publications back in 1975 and 1976. It looks like the streets running north and south were: Water, Main, Common, and Lookout. The streets running east and west were: McBarron, Power, Manning, Holland, Teel, Self, and Church. The square, where eventually the courthouse was built, was bordered by Manning, Main, Power, and Common Streets. There were 20 numbered blocks, with the lots also numbered. Yes, Mrs. Lovell was one of the most cheerful County Clerk's anyone would hope to encounter, and her generosity offset some other county clerks we genealogists sometimes encounter.