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 July 09, 2008 | Hays County Courthouse Texas County Courthouse Project #8: Hays County (San Marcos, Texas) When it came time to name a new county twenty-three miles southwest of Austin in 1848, the choice was clear for several of the original settlers of the area. They had served as members of the Texas Rangers under John Coffee Hays and they saw to it that their new county bore his name. Jack Hays served in the armies of both the Republic of Texas and the United States along with being a Captain in the Texas Rangers. Hays would move to California after the Mexican War and become one of the founding fathers and first mayor of Oakland. When Spanish explorer Alonso De León came to a river in present day Hays County he named it the San Marcos. Missions and settlements came and went until the mid-1800’s when the town of San Marcos finally took root, becoming the county seat in 1848. Southwest Texas Normal School (now known as Texas State) formed in 1903. The courthouse was constructed in 1908 and stands in the middle of a large square. It sits on the foundation of an older courthouse from 1882 that was destroyed in a fire. The cornerstone of that courthouse is still visible. 
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