- Collection:
- Georgia County Courthouses
- Title:
- Crawford County Courthouse
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 2001/2002
- Subject:
- Courthouses--Georgia--Crawford County
Courthouses--Georgia--Knoxville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Crawford County, Knoxville, 32.72431, -83.99769
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Courthouse Details: In an act of Dec. 23, 1822, the legislature authorized Crawford County's initial inferior court to select a site to serve as county seat and provide for construction of a courthouse (Ga. Laws 1822, p. 23). The same act provided that until a courthouse could be built, Crawford County courts and elections would be held at the house of Imlay Vansciver. In Dec. 1823, the legislature designated Knoxville as county seat. At some point thereafter, Crawford County's first courthouse was built. That structure burned in 1829 or 1830. The following year, construction of a new courthouse began. The new building was completed in Jan. 1832. Since then, there have been numerous repairs and remodeling, with extensive interior renovations and construction of a small addition in the late 1960s. In 2001-02, a new courthouse was built one block behind the old courthouse. The historic structure may became the home of the Crawford County Historical Society).
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_gacoch_crawford-county-courthouse
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_gacoch_crawford-county-courthouse
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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