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| History in
a Pecan Shell
In 1855, Owensville became the third county seat
of Robertson County. The contract for the construction of the courthouse was
made that year and the name was chosen to honor the Robertson County Clerk, Harrison
Owen.
The following year the county records were moved from Wheellock.
A post office was granted in 1856 and Owensville remained the county seat until
the end of the Civil War. In 1868, unpopular Reconstructionist County Judge I.
B. Ellison ordered records to be moved to Calvert.
Calvert was declared Robertson County’s 4th seat
of government in Mid 1870.
Owensville’s post office stayed open until 1872
and except for a short-lived reopening in the late 1890s, it closed its doors
for good.
Today
all that’s left of Owensville is the cemetery.
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