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Site of the First Courthouse

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223 W. 1st Avenue, Corsicana, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 5' 50.23335999984", -96° 28' 7.74309"
 
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     The Texas Legislature specified that the seat of Navarro County should be called Corsicana; but the location was not secured until 1848, when this site was donated by David R. Mitchell, James C. Neill, and Thomas Smith. Other structures served briefly as quarters for county business; but the fist actual courthouse was a log cabin erected here in 1848. The 15' by 17' building had the judge's stand in one corner and county clerk's table in another. A two-story frame courthouse replaced the cabin in 1853.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Site of the First Courthouse Historical Marker Location Map, Corsicana, Texas