The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has a list of the historic courthouses dotted across the state.  You can spend days, weeks or even months (if you hit the BBQ places in between) driving across the state and seeing these beauties. 

I based the Verde County Courthouse on the limestone beauties of the Hill Country. 

I'm shaking my head at THC's organization of their website.  Most of the pages devoted to individual courthouses are on their "Historic Downtowns" section.  But given the fact that this is my blog, I'm going to reogranize them the way that I want. 

How very Texan.