Mills County, Texas
TXGenWeb Project USGenWeb ProjectOnline access to Mills County Newspapers
| The University of North Texas has completed digitizing the microfilm and various paper copies of Mills County Newspapers. These include The Mountain Eagle, The Mullin Enterprise, and The Goldthwaite Eagle. These may be browsed at The Portal to Texas History. The earliest issue is 1896. |
Mills County Court House, Goldthwaite, Texas
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Mills county was formed from Brown, Comanche, Hamilton, and Lampasas Counties in 1887.The county was named in honor of John T. Mills, a early Judge, who successively held the judgeship of the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Judicial districts. Mills county Court house is located in Goldthwaite, Mills County, Texas. According to the Mills County Historical The town was named for Joe G. Goldthwaite, the railroad official who conducted the auction of town lots. John Cormack won the bid to build the court house in 1889 for the sum of $27,000. The courthouse burned on May 5, 1912 and was rebuilt the following year. Luckily, no county records were lost in the fire. |
The First and Second Term Officials of Mills County |
A World War II memorial was erected on the Mills County Courthouse Lawn and dedicated on May 29, 2017. It lists by name the county residents who served during WWII and indicates those of them who gave their lives.
This image and coverage of the event with many more photographs was published in the May 31, 2017 edition of The Goldthwaite Eagle, page 10B. Additional stones were dedicated November 11, 2018 for county residents who served during WWI, Korea, and Vietnam. |
You can contact the Mills County Clerk at the following address or phone number: Mills County Clerk's Office P.O. Box 646 Goldthwaite, TX 76844-0646 Telephone: (325) 648-2711 Need to find a different County Courthouse or County Clerk's Office, then Click here to find the address of any Courthouse within Texas Jennie Trent Dew Library Goldthwaite, Tx. 76844 is now on line, Please note that they are not staffed to do genealogical research, but can help if you know the book, page, etc. or they may be able to refer you to some books to research. However, our neighbor county has "The Comanche County Public Library" which is also on-line, and they have one of the best Genealogy Libraries in the area,
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