Completed -
1968 Architect - Jones
- Halley, & Associates
Photos: Robert Deering 9/14/2021
1921 Courthouse
Architect - Jewell Hicks
COUNTY ORGANIZED: 1907
from portions of Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory, and the Choctaw
Nation. COUNTY NAMED FOR:
John H. Stephens, member of Congress
from Texas.
COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR:William
Duncan of the Chickasaw tribe, a local resident.
COURTHOUSES: The county rented space until the 1921 courthouse was completed. It was
replaced by a new building in 1968.