Seat: Franklin · Calvert, Hearne, Bremond
Robertson County was created in 1837 by the Republic of Texas and named for Sterling C. Robertson, an empresario who held the Mexican land grant for the area. The Brazos River forms the county’s eastern boundary, and the bottomlands along it supported the antebellum cotton economy that built Calvert.
Franklin became the county seat in 1879 after the railroad bypassed Calvert. The current 1881 brick courthouse is the second on the Franklin square and has held the deed records of the county continuously since.
From 1942 to 1945, Camp Hearne held roughly 4,800 German prisoners of war, mostly Afrika Korps soldiers captured in North Africa. Several original buildings still stand. The site is preserved as a museum on the original ground southwest of Hearne.
The alluvial soils of the Brazos bottomlands along the county’s eastern boundary are some of the most fertile in Texas. They were the floor of the antebellum cotton economy that built Calvert and Hearne, and many of the original land grants from the Robertson Colony are still traceable through the deeds today.
County seat: Franklin · Courthouse: 102 W. Decherd Street, Franklin, TX 77856
For sovereignty-to-current chain of title work in Robertson County, our title team pulls the deed records in person and reconciles them against the online index. Online date ranges vary by vendor and are not always complete — verify at the courthouse for closing-grade title work.
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