GeorgiaThe historic Emanuel County Courthouse in Swainsboro was completed in 1940 in a Stripped Classical style by the firm Dennis and Dennis, and together with the adjacent 1912 Classical Revival sheriff's building by Augusta architect L. F. Goodrich it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It caps one of Georgia's most fire-plagued courthouse histories: successive Emanuel County courthouses burned in 1841, 1855, 1857, and 1938, so that the 1940 marble building was locally noted as the first the county had not lost to flames. Sherman's army passed through Emanuel County in late 1864 on the March to the Sea. The county also carries a documented legacy of racial-terror violence, with several lynchings of Black residents recorded there between Reconstruction and the mid-twentieth century. County court functions later moved to a new courthouse that opened in 2002.
Emanuel County Courthouse
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Emanuel County Courthouse is a courthouse in Swainsboro, Emanuel County. It is one of 73 historic sites cataloged in Emanuel County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.5966, -82.3331 near Swainsboro. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Crossroads of the Great South (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Home of George Leon Smith, II, Emanuel County Patriot Park, and Emanuel County Courthouse and Sheriff Department.
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 historic Emanuel County Courthouse in Swainsboro was completed in 1940 in a Stripped Classical style by the firm Dennis and Dennis, and together with the adjacent 1912 Classical Revival sheriff's building by Augusta architect L. F. Goodrich it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It caps one of Georgia's most fire-plagued courthouse histories: successive Emanuel County courthouses burned in 1841, 1855, 1857, and 1938, so that the 1940 marble building was locally noted as the first the county had not lost to flames. Sherman's army passed through Emanuel County in late 1864 on the March to the Sea. The county also carries a documented legacy of racial-terror violence, with several lynchings of Black residents recorded there between Reconstruction and the mid-twentieth century. County court functions later moved to a new courthouse that opened in 2002.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgnpgallery.nps.govgeorgiaencyclopedia.orgeji.org
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