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Callahan County Courthouse
Baird, Texas |
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1929 Architect - Voelcker & Dixon Photos: Robert Deering 9/15/2003 |
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 1884 Courthouse Architect - J. Riely Gordon |
COUNTY ORGANIZED: 1877
COUNTY NAMED FOR: James Hughes Callahan, a survivor of the Goliad Massacre and leader of the Callahan expedition.
COUNTY SEATS: Two - Belle Plain and Baird
COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR: Railroad surveyor and engineer Matthew Baird.
COURTHOUSES: Four - Belle Plain in 1877; Baird in 1883, 1884, and 1929
STANDING: One - 1929 Texas Renaissance courthouse built of brick.
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1929 Courthouse
Texas DoT Photo 1939
ADDRESS: 100 W 4th St., Baird, Texas