GeorgiaThe Dougherty County Courthouse in Albany is a mid-century building completed in 1968-1969 in the New Formalism style by architects Harry A. MacEwen and Edward Vason Jones as a shared city-county government center. Its predecessor courthouse and Albany's nearby federal courthouse stood at the heart of the Albany Movement, the sweeping 1961-1962 campaign that was the first mass drive of the modern civil rights era aimed at desegregating an entire community. During that drive Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led marches and was arrested in Albany, and more than a thousand demonstrators were jailed across the city and surrounding counties before the movement wound down in the summer of 1962. The current building, which replaced a 1904 brick courthouse destroyed by fire in 1966, is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places, unlike Albany's separate historic U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. It remains the seat of the county's courts.
Dougherty County Courthouse
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Dougherty County Courthouse is a courthouse in Albany, Dougherty County. It is one of 62 historic sites cataloged in Dougherty County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.5792, -84.1525 near Albany. The nearest cataloged historic site is Colonel Nelson Tift (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Dougherty County, New Albany Hotel, and Freedom Alley and City Hall.
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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The Dougherty County Courthouse in Albany is a mid-century building completed in 1968-1969 in the New Formalism style by architects Harry A. MacEwen and Edward Vason Jones as a shared city-county government center. Its predecessor courthouse and Albany's nearby federal courthouse stood at the heart of the Albany Movement, the sweeping 1961-1962 campaign that was the first mass drive of the modern civil rights era aimed at desegregating an entire community. During that drive Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led marches and was arrested in Albany, and more than a thousand demonstrators were jailed across the city and surrounding counties before the movement wound down in the summer of 1962. The current building, which replaced a 1904 brick courthouse destroyed by fire in 1966, is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places, unlike Albany's separate historic U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. It remains the seat of the county's courts.
Sources: georgialibraries.omeka.netgeorgiaencyclopedia.orggeorgialibraries.omeka.netgeorgiaencyclopedia.org
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