DeWitt County Courthouse

Cuero, Texas

COUNTY ORGANIZED: 1846

COUNTY NAMED FOR: Empresario Green DeWitt

COUNTY SEATS: Three - Cameron, Clinton, and Cuero.

COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR: Cuero Creek, which the Spanish had called Arroyo del Cuero, or Creek of the Rawhide, in reference to the Indians' practice of killing wild cattle that got stuck in the mud of the creekbed.

COURTHOUSES: Three - 1847, 1858, and 1897

STANDING: One -1897 Romanesque Revival courthouse built of sandstone. The interior was renovated in 1957, but exterior remains unchanged.

LINKS: DeWitt County