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Hill County was named for Dr. George Washington Hill, who had
served as President Sam Houston's secretary of war and who had
been elected to the state legislature from Navarro County in
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In an effort to stimulate land speculation, army doctor Josephus
Murray Steiner and Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson, son of
Sterling C. Robertson, devised a plan to divide Navarro County.
A petition was circulated on September 19, 1852, to carve a new
county from Navarro County. Things moved quickly as Governor
Peter Hansbrough Bell called a special session of the
legislature to deal with frontier problems; a bill to divide
Navarro County was signed on February 7, 1853. |
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A special session of the commissioners' court was called on
August 23, 1853, to select the county seat. Thomas Steiner, John
Caruthers, and Jonathan Newby offered to donate 260 acres as the
county seat; their offer was accepted. Another special session
was called on September 24 to survey the town of Hillsborough;
town lots went on sale November 1. C. N. Brooks, the county
clerk and justice of the peace, built the first courthouse,
which was twelve feet square and consisted of elm poles around a
dirt floor. A second courthouse was built in 1854, at a cost of
$200. In the same year, post office rules changed, and the
town's name became spelled as Hillsboro. |
Cities and towns
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Abbott |
Carl's Corner |
Itasca |
Penelope |
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Aquilla |
Covington |
Malone |
Whitney |
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Blum |
Hillsboro |
Mertens |
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Bynum |
Hubbard |
Mount Calm |
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