GeorgiaThe Miller County Courthouse on the square in Colquitt is a modern brick building completed in 1977, the county's fourth courthouse and the successor to a line of buildings repeatedly lost to fire. The first Colquitt courthouse of the 1850s burned in 1873, its replacement burned in 1904, and the 1905 brick courthouse designed by Alexander Blair was destroyed by fire in 1974, prompting the present structure by the Atlanta firm Tomberlin Associates Architects; a white portico was later added at its east entrance in a 2012 renovation. Because it is a recent building, the courthouse is not individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but it anchors the Colquitt town square, part of which is recognized as a historic district. In recent decades that square has gained a wider reputation through Colquitt's Swamp Gravy folk-life drama and its downtown murals, which have made the small county seat a rural arts destination. The courthouse remains the civic heart of Miller County.
Miller County Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Miller County Courthouse is a courthouse in Colquitt, Miller County. It is one of 48 historic sites cataloged in Miller County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.1717, -84.7339 near Colquitt. The nearest cataloged historic site is Miller County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Colquitt City Cemetery, Eternal Rest Memorial Gardens, and Pleasant Hill Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery.
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 Miller County Courthouse on the square in Colquitt is a modern brick building completed in 1977, the county's fourth courthouse and the successor to a line of buildings repeatedly lost to fire. The first Colquitt courthouse of the 1850s burned in 1873, its replacement burned in 1904, and the 1905 brick courthouse designed by Alexander Blair was destroyed by fire in 1974, prompting the present structure by the Atlanta firm Tomberlin Associates Architects; a white portico was later added at its east entrance in a 2012 renovation. Because it is a recent building, the courthouse is not individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but it anchors the Colquitt town square, part of which is recognized as a historic district. In recent decades that square has gained a wider reputation through Colquitt's Swamp Gravy folk-life drama and its downtown murals, which have made the small county seat a rural arts destination. The courthouse remains the civic heart of Miller County.
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