GeorgiaThe historic Walton County Courthouse on the Monroe square was built in 1883–84 to designs by the Atlanta firm Bruce & Morgan in the Second Empire style, gaining a clock tower in 1907 and major restoration under the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The courthouse stands close to the site of one of Georgia's most infamous crimes: the Moore's Ford lynchings of July 25, 1946, in which a mob murdered two young Black couples — George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Malcom — at a bridge outside Monroe. FBI records placed former governor Eugene Talmadge in conversation near the Monroe courthouse during the tense weeks surrounding the killings, and the case, though it drew a federal grand jury and national outrage, produced no indictments. Still unsolved, the Moore's Ford murders remain the subject of annual commemoration and reenactment in the county.
Walton County Government Building
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Walton County Government Building is a courthouse in Monroe, Walton County. It is one of 105 historic sites cataloged in Walton County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7974, -83.6962 near Monroe. The nearest cataloged historic site is Williamson House (historic place), about 0.3 miles away. Others within a short drive include The Bell That Came Home, Boss, A.J., House, and Walton County Jail.
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The historic Walton County Courthouse on the Monroe square was built in 1883–84 to designs by the Atlanta firm Bruce & Morgan in the Second Empire style, gaining a clock tower in 1907 and major restoration under the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The courthouse stands close to the site of one of Georgia's most infamous crimes: the Moore's Ford lynchings of July 25, 1946, in which a mob murdered two young Black couples — George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Malcom — at a bridge outside Monroe. FBI records placed former governor Eugene Talmadge in conversation near the Monroe courthouse during the tense weeks surrounding the killings, and the case, though it drew a federal grand jury and national outrage, produced no indictments. Still unsolved, the Moore's Ford murders remain the subject of annual commemoration and reenactment in the county.
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