GeorgiaBryan County's seat wandered for more than a century, through Hardwick, Cross Roads, Mansford, Eden, and Clyde, before settling at Pembroke, where this Neoclassical Revival courthouse was built in 1938 to designs by architect Walter P. Marshall on a cross plan with entrances on all four sides. The county's most consequential history predates the building: during the Civil War, Confederate forces raised Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River to guard the river plantations and railroad approaches to Savannah, and its capture by General William T. Sherman's troops on December 13, 1864, helped seal the fall of Savannah at the close of the March to the Sea. The courthouse is one of a small group of Georgia courthouses erected between 1930 and 1945, and among the few of that era not documented as funded by Depression-era federal programs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
Bryan County Courthouse (Courthouse)
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Bryan County Courthouse is a courthouse in Pembroke, Bryan County. It is one of 74 historic sites cataloged in Bryan County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.1335, -81.6214 near Pembroke. The nearest cataloged historic site is Bryan County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Bryan County, Old City Jail, and Bryan 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.
Bryan County's seat wandered for more than a century, through Hardwick, Cross Roads, Mansford, Eden, and Clyde, before settling at Pembroke, where this Neoclassical Revival courthouse was built in 1938 to designs by architect Walter P. Marshall on a cross plan with entrances on all four sides. The county's most consequential history predates the building: during the Civil War, Confederate forces raised Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River to guard the river plantations and railroad approaches to Savannah, and its capture by General William T. Sherman's troops on December 13, 1864, helped seal the fall of Savannah at the close of the March to the Sea. The courthouse is one of a small group of Georgia courthouses erected between 1930 and 1945, and among the few of that era not documented as funded by Depression-era federal programs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
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“Bryan County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Bryan County. This page is the courthouse in Pembroke. The others:
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