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Earliest Courthouse

Three room adobe, seat of law and justice when Lincoln County was established, 1869. Routine issuing of warrants and records, trials for crimes large and small, all issued from it. Now called Priest's House, belongs with neighboring church.

Marker is on ...

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County Courthouse

1868

The Alameda County Courthouse stood here between 1856 and 1868. In 1853 Alameda County was carved out of Contra Costa and Santa Clara Counties. New Haven was its first county seat. The 1854 legislative session moved the county seat to ...

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Napa Courthouse Flag Staff

First constructed 1892-3.

Restored under volunteer leadership of Solano-Napa Builders Exchange through contributions and skilled labor of these citizens and organizations of Napa County.

Dedicated April 13, 1985

By the

Native Sons of the Golden West

William Bundesen, Grand President

Marker can be reached from the ...

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San Leandro Courthouse Site

Courthouse of Alameda County on this site early months of 1855. Moved here officially on March 10, 1856 by act of Legislature February 8, 1856. Site donated for county purposes by Jose Joaquin Estudillo. Courthouse moved to Oakland 1835.

Marker is ...

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Jasper County / Jasper County Courthouse

( Front Text)

Jasper County

This county was established in 1912 from portions of Beaufort and Hampton counties and is named, it is said, for Sergeant William Jasper, hero of the American Revolution. The same act establishing the new county also designated ...

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Graham County Courthouse

1916

Since Graham County's formation in 1881 the courthouse had been relocated four times. It had been housed in an adobe structure in Safford, two sites in Solomonville, and the Rig's Building on Main Street when the county seat was returned ...

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Courthouse Burned

[ Side One ]

Twenty-two Kentucky courthouses were burned during Civil War, nineteen in last fifteen months: twelve by Confederates, eight by guerrillas, two by Union accident.

See map on reverse side.

The courthouse at Hodgenville was burned by guerrillas Feb. 21, 1865. ...

The Warren County Courthouse

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

and registered as a

Virginia

Historic Landmark

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Royal Street (U.S. 340), on the left when traveling west on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Old Isle of Wight Courthouse

Smithfield served as the county seat from 1752 to 1801. The Old Isle of Wight Courthouse was built in 1752. Constructed by William Rand, it is one of Virginia's few surviving colonial structures and is notable for having a semicircular ...

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Georgetown County Courthouse

This courthouse, designed by prominent architect and

South Carolina native

Robert Mills (1781–1855),

was built in 1823–24 to replace a courthouse which had been damaged by two hurricanes. Mills himself,

who also designed the Washington Monument, called this courthouse “a great ornament to the ...

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