GeorgiaHabersham County was the scene of a bitter county-seat war: for years residents lobbied to move the seat from Clarkesville to the growing rail town of Toccoa, and when the county's 1832 courthouse was blown up in 1898, blame fell on partisans of the move. The feud was finally settled in 1905 by carving Toccoa out into the newly created Stephens County, leaving Clarkesville the seat it had held since 1823. The present Habersham County Courthouse was built in 1964-1965 in a mid-century modern style to designs by architect David Cuttino Jr., and is the fourth courthouse to serve the county seat; it succeeded a Victorian-era brick courthouse of 1898 attributed to the prolific Georgia courthouse architect J. W. Golucke. More than a thousand Habersham men fought for the Confederacy, and the local Habersham Iron Works produced arms during the Civil War. The 1898 dynamiting belongs to that earlier square, not to today's modern building.
Habersham County Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Habersham County Courthouse is a courthouse in Clarkesville, Habersham County. It is one of 94 historic sites cataloged in Habersham County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.6088, -83.5241 near Clarkesville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Toombs-Bleckley House (historical marker), about 0.3 miles away. Others within a short drive include Hill, A. P., House, Lewis, J. A., House, and McMillan, Robert, House.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Habersham County was the scene of a bitter county-seat war: for years residents lobbied to move the seat from Clarkesville to the growing rail town of Toccoa, and when the county's 1832 courthouse was blown up in 1898, blame fell on partisans of the move. The feud was finally settled in 1905 by carving Toccoa out into the newly created Stephens County, leaving Clarkesville the seat it had held since 1823. The present Habersham County Courthouse was built in 1964-1965 in a mid-century modern style to designs by architect David Cuttino Jr., and is the fourth courthouse to serve the county seat; it succeeded a Victorian-era brick courthouse of 1898 attributed to the prolific Georgia courthouse architect J. W. Golucke. More than a thousand Habersham men fought for the Confederacy, and the local Habersham Iron Works produced arms during the Civil War. The 1898 dynamiting belongs to that earlier square, not to today's modern building.
Sources: georgiaencyclopedia.orgthegagenweb.comcourthouses.co
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