Marion County / Marion Courthouse

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Marion County

Originally a part of colonial Craven County and Georgetown District of 1769, it was created as Liberty County by an Act of the General Assembly in 1785.

The name was changed to Marion District in 1798 and to Marion ...

Refugio County Courthouse

The county and city of Refugio are named after the Spanish Mission De Nuestra Senora Del Refugio (the Mission of our Lady of Refuge) established here in 1795. The Spanish mission building served as Refugio County's courthouse at various times ...

"Harvey House" Leavenworth Court House Annex I

Established 1984

This home was built circa 1870 by A. A. Higgenbotham. The stone was quarried at Junction City, Kansas. Messrs. Anthony, Goehner and Lysle negotiated with the Harvey family and the property was donated to Cushing Hospital in 1944. The ...

Eau Claire County Courthouse Square

A Place to Plan the Future

If this were summer 1856, you would be standing in Chippewa County. June 11 that year, the Chippewa County Board gave up this block for a Courthouse Square. So, when Governor Bashford signed the act ...

Courthouse - Lawrence County Tennessee

Erected 1905

Cornerstone placed June 19, 1905 by Minosa Lodge No. 542 F & A M. Lawrence County established 1817. First Courthouse on this site 1821. Commissioners appointed to select site of county seat; David Crockett, Enoch Tucker, Henry Phoenix, Josephus ...

Gibbs v. Broome, et al/1931 Courthouse

27 Courthouse Square

Should you receive the same pay for doing the same work? William B. Gibbs, teacher and principal of the Rockville Colored Elementary School, thought so, but he had to take the issue to court.

African American teachers had to ...

Red Brick Courthouse

29 Courthouse Square

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands to aid newly freed African Americans. By the time it closed in 1872, the Bureau had provided assistance to four million ...

Osborne County Courthouse

Built 1906-1908

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

2001

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and 4th Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Montgomery County Court House

1784

The original county jail, built in 1787, stood here with the original courthouse. In 1851, a new jail was built and still stands on Airy St. near DeKalb. Designed by Napoleon LeBrun, the architect who later designed the courthouse, the ...

LaPorte County Courthouse

[Side One]

County formed by Indiana General Assembly and La Porte selected county seat 1832. Three courthouses built on this site: first 1833, second 1847-1848. Present courthouse constructed 1892-1894 of Lake Superior Red Sandstone; designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort ...