Hamilton County Seat Cotton Specie Strongbox — Hamilton County

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Hamilton County Seat Cotton Specie Strongbox — Hamilton County

Lost Treasure TX • Hamilton County County
Description
Hamilton legend of a cotton-merchant specie strongbox buried near the county courthouse square — when fence-cutting disputes and Populist politics roiled the 1890s boom.
Historical Notes
Hamilton was selected as the Hamilton County seat in 1858 and developed as the commercial center for cotton, wool, and cattle country between the Leon and Lampasas drainages. The Hamilton Herald began publishing in 1876; Populist Journal-News editorials and fence-cutting conflicts marked the 1880s and 1890s. County-seat merchant-specie folklore often places emergency strongboxes near limestone courthouse squares when rural banking was thin and cotton receipts moved as cash. Related Hico entries document separate Texas Central Railroad variants in northeastern Hamilton County. Coordinates mark the Hamilton County courthouse square in downtown Hamilton.
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