Crane

The Crane County Courthouse was built in 1948 and replaced the county's first (1927) courthouse.  Both the county and the city were named after William Carey Crane, who was a founder of the old Baylor University in Independence, Texas. Crane County was formed in 1887 from land that had once been Tom Green County.  The county was finally organized in 1927.  In 1890 there were a reported 15 people who had coffee with the census enumerator.