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Galveston County Courthouse

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ65119357 ↗
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The Galveston County Courthouse is the county government's courthouse building in Galveston County, Texas. Several buildings have been constructed for and used as the courthouse over the years.

History

Galveston County was established in 1838. A courthouse building was erected in 1898. Another was built in 1966. Tibor Beerman was the primary architect. The current courthouse building is known as the Galveston County Justice Center and was dedicated in 2006.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q65119357. Authority coordinates are 29.303, -94.790. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1838, 1898, 1966 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Galveston County Courthouse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.