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Bee County is named for Barnard E. Bee, Sr., a secretary of state of the Republic of Texas.  Its county seat is Beeville.     Cities and towns Beeville Skidmore Blue Berry Hill Tuleta Normanna Tulsita Pawnee Tynan Pettus   The Bee County Courthouse was designed by the architect William Charles Stephenson, originally form Buffalo, New York. The original courthouse, completed in 1912, cost $72,000. The courthouse is topped by the "Justice Is Blind" monument but without the blindfold. The structure uses the Chicago window style of a glass pane flanked by two narrow ones. It is classical with the grand portico having Corinthian columns at the entry. Stephenson also designed the Rialto Theater in Beeville, used for special occasion, not the running of films, which is located near the Joe Barnhart Library. He did work on the death mask of U.S. President William McKinley, who was assassinated in Buffalo in 1901. Stephenson designed too the courthouse in McMullen County, Texas He also designed about fifty other buildings in Beeville.

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