Is it possible to get a copy of that map for myself? My kin got into the area about ten years later. Thanks Fred Gordon Charles Blakley wrote: > > 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.