GeorgiaThe Echols County Courthouse in the small seat of Statenville was built in 1956 in a plain modern idiom to the designs of architect W. Conner Thomson, the fourth building to serve this sparsely populated south Georgia county since its creation in 1858. It followed an 1899 frame courthouse and earlier wooden structures, one of which burned in 1897, and it is not individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The courthouse square holds a peculiar distinction: when the General Assembly redrew Statenville's boundaries in 1958, it defined the town limits as essentially the courthouse square alone, leaving the incorporated 'city' with virtually no official residents. The building remains the civic anchor of one of Georgia's least-populous counties.
Echols County Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Echols County Courthouse is a courthouse in Statenville, Echols County. It is one of 10 historic sites cataloged in Echols County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 30.7032, -83.0277 near Statenville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Echols County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Statenville Consolidated School, Wayfare or Cow Creek Church, and Skirmish at Cow Creek.
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 Echols County Courthouse in the small seat of Statenville was built in 1956 in a plain modern idiom to the designs of architect W. Conner Thomson, the fourth building to serve this sparsely populated south Georgia county since its creation in 1858. It followed an 1899 frame courthouse and earlier wooden structures, one of which burned in 1897, and it is not individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The courthouse square holds a peculiar distinction: when the General Assembly redrew Statenville's boundaries in 1958, it defined the town limits as essentially the courthouse square alone, leaving the incorporated 'city' with virtually no official residents. The building remains the civic anchor of one of Georgia's least-populous counties.
Sources: georgiaencyclopedia.orgen.wikipedia.orgecholscountyga.com
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