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This
Bee County Website is available for adoption.
If interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer Information Page and contact Kim.
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Bee County is named for Barnard E.
Bee, Sr., a secretary of state of the Republic of Texas. Its
county seat is Beeville.
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Cities and towns
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Beeville
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Skidmore
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Blue Berry Hill
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Tuleta
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Normanna
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Tulsita
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Pawnee
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Tynan
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Pettus
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The Bee
County Courthouse was designed by the architect William Charles
Stephenson, originally form Buffalo, New York. The original courthouse,
completed in 1912, cost $72,000. The courthouse is topped by the
"Justice Is Blind" monument but without the blindfold. The structure
uses the Chicago window style of a glass pane flanked by two narrow
ones. It is classical with the grand portico having Corinthian columns
at the entry.
Stephenson
also designed the Rialto Theater in Beeville, used for special
occasion, not the running of films, which is located near the Joe
Barnhart Library. He did work on the death mask of U.S. President
William McKinley, who was assassinated in Buffalo in 1901. Stephenson
designed too the courthouse in McMullen County, Texas He also designed
about fifty other buildings in Beeville.
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ONLINE
DATA
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Mockingbird
State Bird
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Coming Soon:
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Website Updates:
January 2012:
Bio: Jones
Dec. 2011:
Bios: Hayes, McClanahan
Death notices - Kimball, Lockhart, McMaster, Tims
History - A History of Bee County
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