GeorgiaThe Old White County Courthouse on the Cleveland square was built in 1859 in the Georgian Colonial style to designs by Edwin Pore Williams and William Houston, its walls laid from bricks fired locally at the foot of Yonah Mountain. It served county government for more than a century until a modern courthouse opened south of the square in 1962, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1970. Just off the square stands the old White County Jail, another surviving piece of the county's 19th-century civic fabric that anchored law and order in this Blue Ridge foothills community. Today the restored courthouse anchors downtown Cleveland as home to the White County Historical Society's museum, with exhibits of local folk pottery and mountain heritage and a research room used by genealogists.
White County Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
White County Courthouse is a courthouse in Cleveland, White County. It is one of 97 historic sites cataloged in White County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.5959, -83.7628 near Cleveland. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cleveland (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include White County, Old White County Courthouse, and White County's Gold.
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 Old White County Courthouse on the Cleveland square was built in 1859 in the Georgian Colonial style to designs by Edwin Pore Williams and William Houston, its walls laid from bricks fired locally at the foot of Yonah Mountain. It served county government for more than a century until a modern courthouse opened south of the square in 1962, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1970. Just off the square stands the old White County Jail, another surviving piece of the county's 19th-century civic fabric that anchored law and order in this Blue Ridge foothills community. Today the restored courthouse anchors downtown Cleveland as home to the White County Historical Society's museum, with exhibits of local folk pottery and mountain heritage and a research room used by genealogists.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orggeorgiaencyclopedia.orgnpgallery.nps.gov
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