Year Built: 1936
Architect: Cornell G. Curtis
The Chambers County Courthouse is located in Anahuac, Texas.
Chambers County formed from Jefferson and Liberty counties in February 12, 1858 and organized August 2, 1858.The county was named after General Thomas Jefferson Chambers (1802-1865), Chambers was the first and only superior judge of Texas before the revolution and a member of 1861 Secession Convention. Today, Chambers’s home houses the county library.
A colony of French exiles from Napoleon’s Grand Army, who attempted to put Napoleon’s brother Joseph on the Mexican throne, tried to settle at present Anahuac in 1818, but were driven out by the Spanish.
