Architect: Alfred Giles.
Year Built: 1919.
The Live Oak County Courthouse is located in George West, Texas. Live Oak County was created by the Texas Legislature on Feb. 2, 1856, and organized August 4 with Oakville as county seat. The County was formed from San Patricio and Nueces Counties and named for its Live Oak trees.
County seat moved, 1919, to George West on railroad. Center for ranching, farming, petroleum production and processing. Recreation areas include Tips State Park and Lake Corpus Christi. Historic sites are Fort Ramirez, first settlement; Fort Merrill, built 1850 to protect early settlers; Brownsville-San Antonio Oxcart Road, used by General Santa Anna on the way to the Alamo.
The Courthouse is the second in George West, but a prior courthouse was constructed in Oakville in 1857.
