Hemphill, 1906.
Architect: A. N. Dawson
Memorial to the Space Shuttle Challenger crash - apparently the debris landed nearby.
San Augustine, 1927.
Architect: Shirley Simons
There is an older jail here without a date on it.
Center, 1885.
Architect: J. J. E. Gibson
Gibson was an Irish brickmaker, and wanted to prove himself to Texas, so he made all the bricks and built the courthouse to look like a castle in Dublin! That's a horse-tying ring there - they encircle the courthouse in the concrete. There's an old jail here too, no date on it though.
We had lunch at Las Margaritas on the square and it was good!
Nacogdoches, 1958.
Architect: J. N. McCammon
Nice town, home of Stephen F. Austin University, which is known for its Forestry department. Beautiful countryside - no wonder Forestry is the draw here!
Lufkin, 1955.
Architect: Wilbur Kent
Old jail is now a county office.
Interior of Lufkin. Such ghastly tile wall treatments we have never seen in a courthouse before! UGH!
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