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The Shelby County Courthouse was built from 1883 to 1885 to resemble an Irish castle by architect J.J.E. Gibson of Ireland, in a style that is in part Romanesque Revival. In 1866, after a contested election naming Center as county seat, county records were held at this site after R.L. Parker and Sam Weaver secretly took them from Shelbyville. In 1896, the noted land dispute case of the Heirs of Sydney O. Penington, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, was tried here.
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