- Collection:
- Georgia County Courthouses
- Title:
- Taylor County Courthouse
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Contributor to Resource:
- Duncan, F. Roy
- Date of Original:
- 1935
- Subject:
- Courthouses--Georgia--Taylor County
Courthouses--Georgia--Butler - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Taylor County, Butler, 32.55709, -84.23825
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Architecture Style: Neoclassical Revival with Colonial Revival clock tower
Seat Information: The legislation creating Taylor County authorized the justices of the county's new inferior court to select the location of the county seat, purchase land, lay it off into town lots, sell the lots, and contract for construction of public buildings. Until such actions were taken, the act provided that elections and other county business take place at the Fifty Mile Station on the Muscogee Railroad. In 1852 or 1853, the inferior court designated the county seat as a site on the railroad one-half mile from Fifty Mile Station. The new county seat was named Butler in honor of Gen. William O. Butler (1791-1880), who gained fame as a hero of the Mexican War. The General Assembly incorporated Butler as a town on Feb. 8, 1854 (Ga. Laws 1853-54, p. 232).
Courthouse Details: The act creating Taylor County provided that until a courthouse could be built, the Fifty Mile Station on the Muscogee Railroad would serve as temporary courthouse. Sometime thereafter, a new courthouse was built in Butler. This building was torn down in 1935 and replaced by the current courthouse. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_gacoch_taylor-county-courthouse
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_gacoch_taylor-county-courthouse
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
