GeorgiaThe county's most vivid courthouse-square drama long predates this modern facility: during Sherman's March to the Sea, a Union raiding party reached Hinesville on December 1, 1864, and W. P. L. Girardeau, the county ordinary, was shot and severely wounded as he stood on the steps of the courthouse that then served the town. That event belongs to Liberty County's earlier courthouses of 1849 and 1867, not to the present buildings. The Liberty County Justice Center itself is a modern two-story brick, stone, and concrete facility built from 2009 to 2011 at a cost of roughly $19.65 million to a design by Bryant Architects, and it handles the county's court operations. It supplements the historic Liberty County Courthouse a short distance away, a domed Classical Revival building of 1926-1927 designed by architect J. J. Baldwin and listed on the National Register on September 18, 1980, which was the third courthouse to serve the county.
Liberty County Justice Center
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Liberty County Justice Center is a courthouse in Hinesville, Liberty County. It is one of 81 historic sites cataloged in Liberty County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.8466, -81.5970 near Hinesville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Liberty County Jail (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Old Liberty County Jail, Fort Morris Cannon, and Liberty County Courthouse.
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 county's most vivid courthouse-square drama long predates this modern facility: during Sherman's March to the Sea, a Union raiding party reached Hinesville on December 1, 1864, and W. P. L. Girardeau, the county ordinary, was shot and severely wounded as he stood on the steps of the courthouse that then served the town. That event belongs to Liberty County's earlier courthouses of 1849 and 1867, not to the present buildings. The Liberty County Justice Center itself is a modern two-story brick, stone, and concrete facility built from 2009 to 2011 at a cost of roughly $19.65 million to a design by Bryant Architects, and it handles the county's court operations. It supplements the historic Liberty County Courthouse a short distance away, a domed Classical Revival building of 1926-1927 designed by architect J. J. Baldwin and listed on the National Register on September 18, 1980, which was the third courthouse to serve the county.
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