- Collection:
- Georgia County Courthouses
- Title:
- Brooks County Courthouse
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Contributor to Resource:
- Wind, John; Bruce & Morgan
- Date of Original:
- 1859/1892
- Subject:
- Courthouses--Georgia--Brooks County
Courthouses--Georgia--Quitman - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Brooks County, Quitman, 30.78492, -83.55988
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Architecture Style: Renaissance Revival/Romanesque Revival
Seat Information: Quitman. The act creating Brooks County directed the judges of the inferior court to select a site within four miles of the center of the new county for erection of public buildings. The act further directed that the new county seat be named Quitman. The name honored Gen. John Quitman, former governor of Mississippi, American hero in the Mexican War, and Mississippi congressman at the time of his death in July 1858. Inferior court judges picked a site on the railroad connecting southwestern Georgia with Savannah. Quitman was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly approved Dec. 19, 1859.
Courthouse Details: In Jan. 1859, a month after the creation of Brooks County, the home of Thomas Folsom in Quitman was used as the county's first court room. Subsequently, a temporary courthouse was built. Later in 1859, work began on a permanent courthouse. With the outbreak of the Civil War, work preceded slowly, especially after the contractor died in 1862. The courthouse was not finished until 1864. In 1892, the courthouse underwent extensive renovation. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_gacoch_brooks-county-courthouse
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_gacoch_brooks-county-courthouse
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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