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Cottle County Courthouse Paducah, Texas |
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![]() Photo Robert Deering 4/4/2005 |
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Completed - 1930
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COUNTY ORGANIZED: 1892 COUNTY NAMED FOR: George Cottle, who died at the Alamo. COUNTY SEATS: One - Paducah. COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR: R. Potts, an early settler in the region, moved there from Paducah, Kentucky, in the mid-1800s and offered later arrivals free land in return for voting to name the new settlement Paducah and to make it the county seat. COURTHOUSES: Two - 1893, 1930 STANDING: One - 1930 Moderne courthouse built of brick. LINKS: Cottle County |