GeorgiaThe Telfair County Courthouse in McRae was built in 1934 in the Colonial Revival style by the firm Dennis & Dennis, reusing the walls of an 1873 courthouse that had burned earlier the same year; the two-story brick building and the 1902 county jail were jointly listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. McRae became the county seat in 1870, supplanting the older seat at Jacksonville after the Macon and Brunswick Railroad passed through. Telfair County is closely tied to the Talmadge political dynasty: Eugene Talmadge, the combative three-term governor nicknamed "the Wild Man from Sugar Creek," farmed and built his political base in the county, and his son Herman Talmadge went on to serve as governor and United States senator. That heritage made the small McRae square an unlikely wellspring of Georgia statewide politics. The courthouse remains the seat of county government at the center of town.
Telfair County Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Telfair County Courthouse is a courthouse in McRae, Telfair County. It is one of 49 historic sites cataloged in Telfair County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.0671, -82.8966 near McRae. The nearest cataloged historic site is Telfair County Courthouse and Jail (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Telfair County, Marion Bayard Folsom, and Oak Grove 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 Telfair County Courthouse in McRae was built in 1934 in the Colonial Revival style by the firm Dennis & Dennis, reusing the walls of an 1873 courthouse that had burned earlier the same year; the two-story brick building and the 1902 county jail were jointly listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. McRae became the county seat in 1870, supplanting the older seat at Jacksonville after the Macon and Brunswick Railroad passed through. Telfair County is closely tied to the Talmadge political dynasty: Eugene Talmadge, the combative three-term governor nicknamed "the Wild Man from Sugar Creek," farmed and built his political base in the county, and his son Herman Talmadge went on to serve as governor and United States senator. That heritage made the small McRae square an unlikely wellspring of Georgia statewide politics. The courthouse remains the seat of county government at the center of town.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orggeorgiaencyclopedia.orgen.wikipedia.org
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