Abbeville County Courthouse (1908)
Abbeville's 6th courthouse - designed in beaux arts classical style by Edwards & Walter of Atlanta - dedicated in 1908 with City Hall/Opera House. (Two buildings indirectly financed by profits from Abbeville Dispensary, only one still operating above Columbia.)
• 1st Courthouse - wooden frame building, pulled down in 1825.
• 2nd Courthouse (c. 1825) - two-story brick building demolished after discovery of workmen's fraud (kaolin used instead of lime in mortar).
• 3rd Courthouse (c. 1829) designed by Robert Mills during his residency in Abbeville - some years later one corner found to be sinking & deemed unsafe because of cracks in wall, replaced by
• 4th Courthouse in 1853 - destroyed by fire in 1872.
• 5th Courthouse (c. 1870's) replaced by present structure in 1908.
(Significant Portrait of John C. Calhoun inside.)
Marker is on Court Square (South Carolina Route 28) south of Washington Street (South Carolina Route 203), on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
