GeorgiaThe Troup County Courthouse in LaGrange was completed in 1939 to designs by architect William J.J. Chase, funded through Franklin Roosevelt's Public Works Administration and built of Georgia marble in a Stripped Classical style; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 1995. The county's judicial history also carries a documented record of racial-terror violence. In September 1940 a group of armed men seized Austin Callaway, a young Black man held in the LaGrange jail on an assault accusation, and shot him to death on a rural road before he ever stood trial. In 2017 LaGrange's police chief and mayor publicly apologized for the killing and the department's failure to protect Callaway, an unusual civic reckoning. The Equal Justice Initiative and the local Troup Together coalition later dedicated a marker memorializing Callaway and other Troup County lynching victims, tying the courthouse square to the broader history of extralegal violence in the region.
Troup County Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Troup County Courthouse is a courthouse in LaGrange, Troup County. It is one of 152 historic sites cataloged in Troup County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.0405, -85.0308 near LaGrange. The nearest cataloged historic site is Troup County Courthouse, Annex, and Jail (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include George Michael Troup, The Nancy Harts, and <i>Gilbert du Motier</i> Marquis de LaFayette.
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 Troup County Courthouse in LaGrange was completed in 1939 to designs by architect William J.J. Chase, funded through Franklin Roosevelt's Public Works Administration and built of Georgia marble in a Stripped Classical style; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 1995. The county's judicial history also carries a documented record of racial-terror violence. In September 1940 a group of armed men seized Austin Callaway, a young Black man held in the LaGrange jail on an assault accusation, and shot him to death on a rural road before he ever stood trial. In 2017 LaGrange's police chief and mayor publicly apologized for the killing and the department's failure to protect Callaway, an unusual civic reckoning. The Equal Justice Initiative and the local Troup Together coalition later dedicated a marker memorializing Callaway and other Troup County lynching victims, tying the courthouse square to the broader history of extralegal violence in the region.
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