GeorgiaFulton County was the setting for one of the most infamous trials in American history: the 1913 murder trial of Leo Frank, the pencil-factory superintendent convicted of killing thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan. That month-long trial, held amid mob hysteria and inflammatory press coverage, took place in the Fulton County Superior Court in downtown Atlanta, in the county's earlier courthouse on this judicial block, not in the modern tower that now stands here; Frank was convicted in August 1913 and abducted from prison and lynched in Marietta in 1915. The Fulton County Justice Center Tower itself is a modern nine-story concrete, steel, and glass building constructed between 1993 and 1996 to house courtrooms for the State Court and Magistrate Court. It supplements the monumental 1914 Fulton County Courthouse next door, expanding the county's judicial capacity rather than replacing the historic seat of the courts.
Fulton County Justice Center
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Fulton County Justice Center is a courthouse in Atlanta, Fulton County. It is one of 2 courthouses documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7504, -84.3907 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fulton County Courthouse (courthouse), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Fulton County, Immaculate Conception Church, and Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Fulton County was the setting for one of the most infamous trials in American history: the 1913 murder trial of Leo Frank, the pencil-factory superintendent convicted of killing thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan. That month-long trial, held amid mob hysteria and inflammatory press coverage, took place in the Fulton County Superior Court in downtown Atlanta, in the county's earlier courthouse on this judicial block, not in the modern tower that now stands here; Frank was convicted in August 1913 and abducted from prison and lynched in Marietta in 1915. The Fulton County Justice Center Tower itself is a modern nine-story concrete, steel, and glass building constructed between 1993 and 1996 to house courtrooms for the State Court and Magistrate Court. It supplements the monumental 1914 Fulton County Courthouse next door, expanding the county's judicial capacity rather than replacing the historic seat of the courts.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgfamous-trials.comfultonsuperiorcourtga.gov
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