- Collection:
- Georgia County Courthouses
- Title:
- Webster County Courthouse
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lockwood, T. F., Sr.
- Date of Original:
- 1915
- Subject:
- Courthouses--Georgia--Webster County
Courthouses--Georgia--Preston - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Webster County, Preston, 32.06599, -84.53742
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Architecture Style: Neoclassical Revival
Courthouse Details: For most Georgia counties created in the 19th century, the enabling legislation authorized the county's inferior court to select a county seat and contract for erection of a courthouse. However, the 1853 legislation creating Kinchafoonee County (subsequently renamed Webster County) provided for selecting a county seat -- but not erecting a courthouse. It is unclear where court sessions and other county business initially was conducted. However, the Dec. 22, 1857 act incorporating Preston directed that elections be held at the courthouse or some other convenient place in the town. Some accounts suggest that Webster County's first courthouse was built in 1860. Whenever it was constructed, the courthouse survived until 1914, when it was destroyed by fire. The current courthouse was built the following year. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_gacoch_webster-county-courthouse
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_gacoch_webster-county-courthouse
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
