GeorgiaThe Bacon County Courthouse in Alma is a two-story red-brick Neoclassical Revival building constructed about 1919, designed by architect J. J. Baldwin after the county's creation in 1914. A tall portico with four white columns and a pediment fronts the building, which is crowned by an octagonal cupola with a clock and gilded dome. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980, and still houses the county's superior, state, juvenile, probate, and magistrate courts. Standing at the center of Alma, the seat of a county that styles itself the blueberry capital of Georgia, the courthouse is valued chiefly for its early-20th-century civic architecture, as no notable trial, execution, or wartime event tied to the building is documented in reliable sources.
Bacon County Courthouse (Courthouse)
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Bacon County Courthouse is a courthouse in Alma, Bacon County. It is one of 43 historic sites cataloged in Bacon County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.5416, -82.4694 near Alma. The nearest cataloged historic site is Bacon County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Alma Depot, Rabinowitz Building, and Bacon County Courthouse.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Bacon County Courthouse in Alma is a two-story red-brick Neoclassical Revival building constructed about 1919, designed by architect J. J. Baldwin after the county's creation in 1914. A tall portico with four white columns and a pediment fronts the building, which is crowned by an octagonal cupola with a clock and gilded dome. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980, and still houses the county's superior, state, juvenile, probate, and magistrate courts. Standing at the center of Alma, the seat of a county that styles itself the blueberry capital of Georgia, the courthouse is valued chiefly for its early-20th-century civic architecture, as no notable trial, execution, or wartime event tied to the building is documented in reliable sources.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orggeorgiaencyclopedia.orgcourthouses.co
“Bacon County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Bacon County. This page is the courthouse in Alma. The others:
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