https://sanangelolive.com/news/texas/2021-02-04/mason-county-courthouse-burns-ground
http://www.courthouses.co/us-states/o-u/texas/mason-county/
In the 1980s, Bouie County built a widely opposed new WalMart style courthouse and left the old historic courthouse abandoned several miles away. The county government of the time was opposed to preserving and repurposing the old courthouse. The old courthouse, dating from 1891, eventually burned under suspicious circumstances and it is widely believed that the county government was involved.
http://www.courthouses.co/us-states/o-u/texas/bowie-county/
I note some parallels between Bowie and Mason courthouse fires but also differences. Mason courthouse was about to be renovated and county government seems devastated by the loss while the Bowie courthouse was unwanted by county government.
That is sad. It was a beautiful building.
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