- Collection:
- Georgia County Courthouses
- Title:
- Liberty County Courthouse
- Creator:
- Jackson, Edwin L.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Baldwin, J. J.
- Date of Original:
- 1926
- Subject:
- Courthouses--Georgia--Liberty County
Courthouses--Georgia--Hinesville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Liberty County, Hinesville, 31.84688, -81.59595
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Architecture Style: Neoclassical Revival
Courthouse Details: Following its creation, Liberty County went many years without a courthouse. In 1791, the legislature named commissioners to construct a courthouse and jail in Sunbury, but apparently no courthouse was built. Six years later, the legislature moved the county seat from Sunbury to Riceborough. An 1836 act moving the county seat from Riceborough to a site known as the General Parade Ground authorized the sale of the jail at Riceborough but made no mention of a courthouse. Jordan and Puster indicate that the first known courthouse was a wooden structure built in 1849. They record that this building was replaced by a second courthouse built in 1867. The present two-story brick courthouse was built in 1926, with extensive wings added in 1965. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_gacoch_liberty-county-courthouse
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_gacoch_liberty-county-courthouse
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
