Historical Marker
Harrison County Courthouse
Marker installed: 1965
Built 1900. Cost $62,000. Third on this site. (Little Virginia, 1851; brick Gothic, 1889, burned in 1899.)
This one of granite, brick and marble. Capitol-styled, classic Roman architecture, with a dome clock and belfry surmounted by a symbolic figure of justice.
In 1964 became site of Harrison County Museum, in space allotment after new Courthouse was opened on Whetstone Square.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965.
The first oil well in the United States was drilled in Texas in 1859. The discovery of oil transformed the economy of the state and helped to make Texas one of the wealthiest states in the nation.