GeorgiaRising over the Valdosta square, the Lowndes County Courthouse was built in 1904-1905 in the Neoclassical Revival style to a design by Southern architect Frank Pierce Milburn, the county's seventh courthouse. The three-story building of gray granite and pressed brick carries a portico of four twenty-five-foot Corinthian columns and a central lanterned dome flanked by copper corner domes, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The county's history also holds one of the most brutal episodes of racial terror in Georgia: in May 1918, after plantation owner Hampton Smith was killed, a mob hunted and lynched at least eleven Black people across the Brooks-Lowndes County line, among them Mary Turner, who was eight months pregnant and was killed after publicly protesting her husband's murder. No one was ever charged, and the rampage stands as one of the deadliest mass lynchings in the state's record. In recent years Valdosta and Lowndes County have undertaken public remembrance of these killings, and a memorial marks the site near the county line where Turner died.
Lowndes County Courthouse (Courthouse)
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Lowndes County Courthouse is a courthouse in Valdosta, Lowndes County. It is one of 53 historic sites cataloged in Lowndes County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 30.8345, -83.2790 near Valdosta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Barber-Pittman House (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Converse-Dalton House, Lowndes County Courthouse, and Lowndes County.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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Rising over the Valdosta square, the Lowndes County Courthouse was built in 1904-1905 in the Neoclassical Revival style to a design by Southern architect Frank Pierce Milburn, the county's seventh courthouse. The three-story building of gray granite and pressed brick carries a portico of four twenty-five-foot Corinthian columns and a central lanterned dome flanked by copper corner domes, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The county's history also holds one of the most brutal episodes of racial terror in Georgia: in May 1918, after plantation owner Hampton Smith was killed, a mob hunted and lynched at least eleven Black people across the Brooks-Lowndes County line, among them Mary Turner, who was eight months pregnant and was killed after publicly protesting her husband's murder. No one was ever charged, and the rampage stands as one of the deadliest mass lynchings in the state's record. In recent years Valdosta and Lowndes County have undertaken public remembrance of these killings, and a memorial marks the site near the county line where Turner died.
“Lowndes County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Lowndes County. This page is the courthouse in Valdosta. The others:
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