Nevada County Court House

History

Nevada County organized out of Yuba County May 18, 1851. Wooden court house and log jail built on Broad Street 1851. The first court house on this site was erected in 1856. The building was damaged by fire in July ...

Sussex County Courthouse

In 1835 a lottery was authorized to raise funds to replace the frame structure which had served as Courthouse since 1791. Construction of the new building began in 1837 following the sale and relocation of the original Courthouse to its ...

Mono County Court House

Since April 1, 1881 with the trial of Morton, indicted for theft of gold bullion from the Standard Co. of Bodie, the scales of justice in this building have continuously weighed the problems of Mono County from infancy to this ...

First Court House of Fairfax County

From this spot N. 20° W. 220 ft.

stood the First Court House

of Fairfax County

Built in 1742

abandoned

because Indian hostilities

about 1752

Marker is at the intersection of Old Courthouse Road (County Route 677) and Chain Bridge Road (Virginia Highway 123), on the right ...

The Coshocton County Courthouse

In 1764, Colonel Henry Bouquet established the site of what is now Coshocton. In 1811, the county was founded and the town incorporated as the county seat. The Coshocton County Courthouse, the third on this site, was built between 1873 ...

The History of Tuscarawas County Courthouses

When David Knisely, the founder of New Philadelphia, first arrived in the Tuscarawas Valley on August 27, 1803, he found a sparsely populated, pristine wilderness. Five years later the state legislature approved a bill organizing Tuscarawas County effective March 15, ...

Navajo County Courthouse

Navajo County Courthouse

In 1896, the U.S. Congress passed enabling legislation

to provide a permanent courthouse at Holbrook.

Construction was delayed until Frank A. Zuck donated

land in April of 1898. Plans submitted by Phoenix

architects D.W. Millard and George G. ...

Elkhart County Courthouse

Side 1:

Elkhart County was formed by the Indiana General Assembly 1830; the first county seat was located in Concord Township. County commissioners relocated the county seat to Goshen 1831. Jacob Studebaker, Goshen, designed first brick courthouse, completed 1833. Barrows ...

Mathews County Courthouse Square

Mathews County was formed in 1790 from Gloucester County and named for Thomas Mathews, of Norfolk, a soldier of the Revolution who was then Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. A local builder, Richard Billups, constructed the courthouse between ...

Santa Clara County Courthouse

Completed in 1867, this imposing building was constructed in the hope of attracting the State Legislature back to San José. It was designed by Levi Goodrich, a noted local architect. The original building was two-storied with a central dome. After ...