The Courthouse Square in Texas

by Robert E. Veselka

Book Overview

With its dignified courthouse set among shade trees and lawns dotted with monuments to prominent citizens and fallen veterans, the courthouse square remains the civic center in a majority of the county seats of Texas. Yet the squares themselves vary in form and layout, reflecting the different town-planning traditions that settlers brought from Europe, Mexico, and the United States. In fact, one way to trace settlement patterns and ethnic dispersion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292787367
• ISBN13: 9780292787360
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"