residents of Mason County felt that this new county would negatively impact theirs
Texas due to a disagreement over the town's name
established in 1969 after a series of mergers
sealed with an Old Sad Songs Photography sticker
Presidio County Courthouse Style:Classic Black Frame - 11x14" Frame residents of Mason County feltIn 1882, the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railroad built the southern transcontinental railroad through Marfa, Texas, instead of the county seat, Fort Davis, to avoid the mountains. Three years later, voters elected to move the county seat to Marfa, and a new courthouse would be required. Nineteen architects, in 1886, competed in a design contest for the contract to build the new courthouse in Presidio County, Texas. Col. J. H. Britton and