Consequently, to ensure that the county seat issue would not be played out again, Davenport built the first county courthouse.

* On June 12, 2011, Talbot County, Maryland, honored Douglass by installing a seven-foot bronze statue of Douglass on the lawn of the county courthouse in Easton, Maryland.

The Chaves county courthouse

The current Dutchess County Court House | county courthouse, built in 1903, stands on the same site as the original 1720 building. Fun at the Dutchess County FairPrior to Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples.

Many county seats in the United States feature a historic courthouse, such as this one in Renville County, Minnesota, pictured in May 2008.

When Tierra Amarilla was designated as the county seat the villagers set about building a courthouse.

That same year the county seat was transferred from Tappan to New City, where a new courthouse was built.

The act authorized Joshua R. Stone and Green Baker from White County, William Davis and Isaiah Warton from Overton County, John Brown and Austin Morgan from Jackson County, William B. Stokes and Bird S. Rhea from DeKalb County, and Benjamin A. Vaden and Nathan Ward from Smith County to study the Conner survey and select a spot, not more than two and one-half miles from the center of the county, for the courthouse.

Built of brick, at a cost of $ 11, 000, and very similar to the previous courthouse, the new Courthouse began serving the county in the Fall of 1853.

Residents generally supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, as the Confederate flag flew over the county courthouse for many years following the end of the Civil War.

Later that year, the first post office opened in Hayesville and the first county courthouse was built in 1888, currently it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The first county election was held on March 1, 1823, with 61 voters participating to elect the first three county commissioners — William Offield, James Blevins and John McCollough — who then ordered that the first jail and courthouse be built.

State trial courts are usually located in a courthouse in the county seat.

A courthouse ( sometimes spelled court house ) is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities.

In most counties in the United States, the local trial courts conduct their business in a centrally located courthouse which may also house county governmental offices.

The courthouse is usually located in the county seat, although large metropolitan counties may have satellite or annex offices for their courts.

In some places, the courthouse also contains the main administrative office for the county government, or when a new courthouse is constructed, the former one will often be used for other local government offices.

Image: Orange county court house vt. jpg | Orange County, Vermont courthouse

The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning of where the county administration is based ( see County halls below ).

Henceforth, all administrative counties and county boroughs would be divided into either rural or urban districts, allowing more localised administration.

Henceforth, all administrative counties and county boroughs would be divided into either rural or urban districts, allowing more localised administration.

The principal function of the county was to impose royal control in the areas of taxation, security and the administration of justice at the local level.

On the other hand, Arlington County, Virginia, the United States ' smallest county, located just across the Potomac River from Washington, D. C., is both an urbanized and suburban area, governed by a unitary county administration.

Each administrative district consists of an elected council and an executive, and whose duties are comparable to those of a county executive in the United States, supervising local government administration.

Bucharest has a unique status in Romanian administration, since it is the only municipality that is not part of a county.

Typically unitary authorities cover towns or cities which are large enough to function independently of county or other regional administration.

Until 1889, the county of Surrey included the present-day London borough of Southwark, yet the name has been used for various areas of civil administration, including the ancient Borough of Southwark, the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark and the current London Borough of Southwark.

For religious administration, the county was divided into parishes.

In January 1667, the county administration laid out the five initial districts, designated as " Hundreds ", into which the county would be divided.

The official county seat has been located in Titusville since 1894, although most of the county's administration is performed from Viera.

There was talk of secession on the southern end of the county, and the county decided to build a new county administration complex at Viera near the geographical center of the county.

This unit of administration is translated as " county " when used in a contemporary context.

Among the principal governmental functions vested in Alabama counties are law enforcement ; tax assessment, levy and collection ; administration of decedent's estates and probate matters ; maintenance of real and personal property title records ; construction and maintenance of public roads and bridges ; and maintenance of the county courthouse, which provides office space for various county officials and departments.

Some plant-location specialists take these signs to mean St. Louis county doesn't want industry, and so they avoid the area, and more jobs are lost.

A group of native trees or plants which are outstanding in a particular county can be featured at the site.

It'll be a tedious job, but if you want to try it, the old newspaper files are in the basement here in the county supervisor's office ''.

Some Democratic district and county leaders are reported trying to induce State Controller Arthur Levitt of Brooklyn to oppose Mr. Wagner for the Mayoral nomination in the Sept. 7 Democratic primary.

Both these types, and those in between, are in existence by reason of a legislative interest in libraries that began at Albany as early as 1950, with the creation by the legislature of county library systems financed by county governments with matching funds from the state.

A large, well-stocked library, surrounded in a county by smaller ones, may feel that the demands on its resources are likely to be too great.

In the northern part of this plateau, west of Jackson county, there are about of level highlands from above sea level.

The boundaries of the present council area are exactly the same as those of the old county minus the City of Dundee.

Paramus in Bergen County, where three of the four major malls are located, has even more restrictive blue laws than the county itself, banning all type of work on Sundays except in grocery stores, restaurants, and other entertainment venues.

Regarding alcohol, wines and spirits are to be sold only in the state owned Wine And Spirits shops, where all prices must remain the same throughout the state ( county sales tax may cause the price to differ slightly ).

Location of Iceni territory within England, Wales and Mann ; modern county borders for England and Wales are shown for context.

In French these are respectively léonard spoken in the Breton county of Léon, trégorrois spoken in the Trégor, vannetais spoken around the city of Vannes, and cornouaillais spoken in the Breton Cornouaille ).

Secondary routes are known as county roads.

The main population centres are Castlebar and Ballina, located in the centre and in the north-east of the county respectively.

There are nine historic baronies, four in the northern area and five in the south of the county:

Castlebar and Ballina are the two most populous towns in the county, with 10, 826 for Castlebar and 10, 361 for Ballina respectively according to the 2011 census.

It is alleged that its chief of staff is a Limerick man and that a number of other key members are from that county.

The second, larger inventory is the Regional Inventory ( RI ), which is broken down by county and contains both those pubs listed in the NI and other pubs that are not eligible for the NI, due to reasons such as having been overly modified, but are still considered historically important, or have particular architectural value.

There are four local authorities whose remit collectively encompasses the geographic area of the county and city of Dublin.

County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county.

In fact, many county towns are no longer part of " their " administrative county.

Many county towns are in fact cities, but all are referred to as county towns irrespective of whether city status is held or not.