GeorgiaBaldwin County's seat is Milledgeville, Georgia's capital from 1804 to 1868, and its courthouse history runs deep: a courthouse completed in 1814 was replaced by a larger building on the same square in 1847, which burned in 1861, after which court moved temporarily into the Capitol, the Masonic Hall, and the local opera house. When Georgia's secession convention met in Milledgeville in January 1861 the town became a wartime target, and in November 1864 General William T. Sherman's troops occupied the capital, staging a mock legislative session in the statehouse to "repeal" the ordinance of secession before continuing the March to the Sea. The present Baldwin County Courthouse was built in 1995-97 to a design by Brittain, Thompson, Bray & Brown, while the surviving 19th-century Old Baldwin County Courthouse endures as a landmark now associated with Georgia College. The dramatic Civil War events belong to the wartime town and its earlier courthouse, not to the modern building.
Baldwin County Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Baldwin County Courthouse is a courthouse in Milledgeville, Baldwin County. It is one of 113 historic sites cataloged in Baldwin County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.0814, -83.2286 near Milledgeville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Great Seal of Georgia and the Unfinished Acts of the Legislature, 1864 (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The Great Seal of Georgia, Blackbridge Gallery, and Georgia College & State University Planetarium.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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Baldwin County's seat is Milledgeville, Georgia's capital from 1804 to 1868, and its courthouse history runs deep: a courthouse completed in 1814 was replaced by a larger building on the same square in 1847, which burned in 1861, after which court moved temporarily into the Capitol, the Masonic Hall, and the local opera house. When Georgia's secession convention met in Milledgeville in January 1861 the town became a wartime target, and in November 1864 General William T. Sherman's troops occupied the capital, staging a mock legislative session in the statehouse to "repeal" the ordinance of secession before continuing the March to the Sea. The present Baldwin County Courthouse was built in 1995-97 to a design by Brittain, Thompson, Bray & Brown, while the surviving 19th-century Old Baldwin County Courthouse endures as a landmark now associated with Georgia College. The dramatic Civil War events belong to the wartime town and its earlier courthouse, not to the modern building.
Sources: georgiaencyclopedia.orgbaldwincountyga.comen.wikipedia.org
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