Goldthwaite

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GOLDTHWAITE, TEXAS. Goldthwaite, is the county seat of Mills County, located at the junctions of U.S. highways 84, 183, State Highway 16, and Farm roads 574 and 572, in the heart of the county. The town was once a part of what was then southern Brown County in 1885, with the coming of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, and was named for Joe G. Goldthwaite, the railroad official who conducted the auction of town lots. The post office opened in 1886. After Mills County was organized the following year, a number of landowners donated town site property in exchange for assurances that Goldthwaite would be selected county seat. A county courthouse was completed in 1890; the first county jail, constructed in 1888, is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

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