GeorgiaThe Pickens County Courthouse in Jasper was completed in 1949, faced with marble quarried in nearby Tate, and designed by the Marietta firm of Boswell & Nash in a Stripped Classical style; it is the county's third courthouse, built to replace an 1888 building that burned in 1947. Georgia Marble Company owner Samuel Tate sold the marble to the county at cost and lent a designer to oversee the veneer installation, and the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The courthouse square holds one of the more striking Unionist stories in the North Georgia mountains: Jasper's leaders voted against secession, and after Georgia left the Union in 1861, residents raised the United States flag over the county courthouse and guarded it in shifts for about a month until the state government finally forced its removal. The county sent men into both armies during the war, and troops of both sides passed through the divided town. That defiant flag flew over the antebellum courthouse that preceded the present marble building.
Pickens County Courthouse (Courthouse)
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Pickens County Courthouse is a courthouse in Jasper, Pickens County. It is one of 32 historic sites cataloged in Pickens County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.4693, -84.4297 near Jasper. The nearest cataloged historic site is Pickens County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Old Federal Road, Pickens County Jail, and Old Pickens County Jail.
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 Pickens County Courthouse in Jasper was completed in 1949, faced with marble quarried in nearby Tate, and designed by the Marietta firm of Boswell & Nash in a Stripped Classical style; it is the county's third courthouse, built to replace an 1888 building that burned in 1947. Georgia Marble Company owner Samuel Tate sold the marble to the county at cost and lent a designer to oversee the veneer installation, and the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The courthouse square holds one of the more striking Unionist stories in the North Georgia mountains: Jasper's leaders voted against secession, and after Georgia left the Union in 1861, residents raised the United States flag over the county courthouse and guarded it in shifts for about a month until the state government finally forced its removal. The county sent men into both armies during the war, and troops of both sides passed through the divided town. That defiant flag flew over the antebellum courthouse that preceded the present marble building.
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“Pickens County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Pickens County. This page is the courthouse in Jasper. The others:
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