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Thanks to the people who responded to Facebook about the Luker Studio pictures available at the museum.

The sensational murder trial of 24 Texans, denied bail and held for months in an open-air stockade, began at Jefferson on May 24, 1869.

Hamilton County Commissioners Court Tuesday morning authorized purchase of a storage facility for the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, revisions to the employee handbook and a software renewal agreement.

The Hamilton Community Foundation will host a groundbreaking event for the new Hamilton Community Center on Sunday, June 8, at 2pm.

Come see us! We are open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., M-F. Meals are served at 11:30 a.m. each day. The menu is subject to change.

by Bartee Haile By the end of May 1945, more enemy prisoners were sitting out the Second World War in Texas than any state in the Union. One out of every ten German, Italian and Japanese captives shipped to the United States for safekeeping wound up somewhere between the Red River and the Rio Grande.