- Collection:
- Georgia County Courthouses
- Title:
- Towns County Courthouse
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Contributor to Resource:
- Whitehead, Henry M., Jr.
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Subject:
- Courthouses--Georgia--Towns County
Courthouses--Georgia--Hiawassee - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Towns County, Hiawassee, 34.94926, -83.75739
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Architecture Style: Modern
Seat Information: The act creating Towns County called for county elections on the first Monday in April 1856. After that election, the justices of the county's new inferior court were authorized to select a site for the county seat, purchase land, lay the site off into town lots, sell the lots, and make all arrangements for the county seat and public buildings as necessary. It is not clear when the inferior court selected a county seat, though the first courthouse reportedly was built in Hiawasee in 1857. The exact date the inferior court selected Hiawassee as county seat is not known. The General Assembly incorporated Hiawassee as a town on Oct. 24, 1870 (Ga. Laws 1870, p. 204).
Courthouse Details: Towns County's first courthouse reportedly was built in the Hiawassee town square in 1857. The building served until 1905, when a new courthouse was completed. The present courthouse was erected in 1964. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_gacoch_towns-county-courthouse
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_gacoch_towns-county-courthouse
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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