Fairfax County Courthouse

War on the Courthouse Grounds

At different times, Union and Confederate forces occupied the Fairfax County Courthouse at this important crossroads. The flag of each side flew from its cupola during the war, and the building suffered damage.

On April 25, 1861, ...

Old Russell County Courthouse

During the Federal occupation of the former Confederate States of America, the Alabama Legislature created Lee County primarily from the northern half of Russell County in 1866 and ordered the selection of the county seat "more centrally located." Government in ...

Dallas County Courthouse

The grassed over mound of brick before you was once Dallas County's courthouse. This courthouse was built in 1834. It was dismantled prior to 1905 by brick salvagers.

Cahawba was the county seat from 1818 to 1866. This brought a lot ...

Caroline County Courthouse

Union Troops Filled the Roads to Richmond

On May 21, 1864, Gen. Winfield S. Hancock’s Second Corps passed through Bowling Green. Union soldiers broke into stores, looted homes and freed prisoners from the jail. Documents from the ransacked courthouse littered the ...

The Hardin County Courthouse

One of Ohio's larger courthouses, this structure, completed in 1915 at a cost of $275,000, is the third courthouse to be built in this vicinity. The building, designed by the architectural firm, Richards, McCarty, and Bulford, is an excellent example ...

Kent County Courthouses (1680-1983)

Court was first held in Jones County in 1680. In 1682 William Penn changed the county’s name to Kent County. On August 11, 1863 William Penn directed that the town of Dover be laid out and that a courthouse be ...

Old Knox County Courthouse

The third courthouse of Knox County was across Main Ave. to the north from 1842-1886. There twelve Union raiders who were charged with train stealing in the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase in Georgia, were tried in 1863. One was convicted. ...

Henry County Courthouse / Henry County

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Henry County Courthouse

This Courthouse was designed by Reuben Harrison Hunt of Chattanooga and built by Ed M. Wallen of New Decatur, Alabama, in 1896. It is the third Courthouse on this site and is one of West Tennessee oldest working ...

Wilkes County Courthouses

1780-1785 West side, Micajah Williamson’s tavern.

1785-1786 100’ South. Log.

1786-1804 150’ South. Clapboard. John Chisholm, Architect.

1804-1817 East. Commissioners purchased Ferdinand Phinizy’s two story residence.

1817-1904 125’ South. Federal style brick. Frederick Ball, Architect.

1903 Present courthouse. Burned Christmas Eve 1958. Flemish style brickwork.

Marker ...

County of El Dorado Courthouse Restoration

Board of Supervisors

John M. Caswell – District 1, William V.D. Johnson – District 2, Thomas M. Goodloe, Jr. – District 3, Raymond E. Lawyer, Chairman – District 4, Gerald E. Martin – District 5.

Robert Mason, Architect

Buettner-Carter, Denton & Assoc., General ...