Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a Librarian Emeritus from Texas Tech University. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article about Historic Courthouses of the Texas South Plains is by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart, Lubbock attorney and award-winning Western history writer.

If you happen to have legal business on the South Plains of Texas, there’s a chance you will walk the halls of a historic century-old courthouse still used every day as the local center of justice. I’m lucky to have practiced law in each of these majestic buildings.

Dickens County

Among the oldest courthouses still in use in Texas is the Dickens County Courthouse. Created in 1876 (as were all South Plains/Panhandle counties), the county was mis-named, as the Te

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