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That courthouse was replaced in 1932 by the current Colfax County Courthouse ( Raton, New Mexico ), an art-deco WPA structure that also is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The courthouse was a white-stucco building minus the customary dome.
He hurried across to the courthouse and caught the sheriff just as he was leaving.
Whoever it was had meant to shut him up in here, had followed him and waited till the courthouse and square were deserted.
Alcott was one of several who attempted to storm the courthouse ; when gunshots were heard, he was the only one who stood his ground, though the effort was unsuccessful.
" He then walked calmly into the courthouse, was threatened with a gun, and turned back, " but without hastening a step ", according to Higginson.
Most of the boundary between Delaware and Pennsylvania was originally defined by an arc extending from the cupola of the courthouse in the city of New Castle.
Approximately 10, 000 white people reportedly swarmed the courthouse when Coe was torn from his jail cell, beaten and lynched.
: 10, 000 white people storm the local courthouse to beat and lynch Joe Coe, who was alleged to have raped a white child.
In Cohen v. California,, wearing a jacket reading " Fuck the Draft " in the corridors of the Los Angeles County courthouse was ruled not to be punishable.
O. Henry Hall, now owned by the University of Texas, previously served as the federal courthouse in which O. Henry was convicted of embezzlement.
Before it was converted into a museum, the building was used as the Fayette 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.
The fort was flooded the first year and moved to the top of the bluff where the courthouse sits today.
In 1963, the courthouse in Lake George village was closed and operations moved several miles south to its present day location at the Warren County Municipal Center main campus in Queensbury.
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.
A two story addition was added to the front in 1905 with a new four story tower giving the courthouse a whole new appearance.
This building was replaced by the current art-deco courthouse in 1941.
A new courthouse was built at the present location of Court Square, at the foot of Market Street ( now Dexter Avenue ).
Although some citizens believed Bowling Green was no longer the most practical or logical site for a new courthouse, the commissioners quickly decided to build the third courthouse on the site of the previous one in Bowling Green.
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The old County Complex, which the Administration Building replaced, was located adjacent to the courthouse on Spring Street and 4th Street.
The 1872 courthouse was destroyed by fire and replaced in 1884 with a new building designed by Alfred Giles.
A stone courthouse was erected from locally quarried materials in 1880 but was replaced by a wooden structure in 1888.
The wooden courthouse was moved to the current site but was replaced by the existing structure as a result of a 1925 bond election.
The first courthouse opened in 1837 and served the county until it burned and was replaced by the present Coffee County Courthouse in 1871.
This courthouse burned down in 1954 and was replaced the following year with the current courthouse.
The $ 47 million facility replaced a more than century old courthouse in Rockingham County and includes courthouse, jail, and sheriff's office.
Henderson County government was centered around Hendersonville in the 1905 county courthouse on Main Street, until this structure was replaced by the new Courthouse ( c. 1995 ) on Grove Street in Hendersonville.
( This courthouse was destroyed by fire in 1908 and it was not until 1938 that it was replaced by the three-story limestone building that stands today.
The original 1878 courthouse was torn down in 1971 to be replaced by county government plaza and modern six-story courthouse.
Because of the chaos and destruction brought caused by the Civil War, the courthouse was not replaced until 1871.
This courthouse was later replaced by a larger two story brick & stone structure that was completed in 1854, which also functioned as the county jail.
The old log-cabin courthouse, which had been erected in Van Buren in 1853, continued to be used as the Carter County Courthouse until it was replaced by a wood-frame building in 1867.
The temporary courthouse and log jail were replaced in 1839 by a brick courthouse and jail.
The first purpose-built courthouse was completed in 1835 at a cost of $ 2, 000 ; in 1872, it was replaced with a new building that cost $ 48, 000.
The log building was replaced by a brick structure in 1832, which served until 1879, when it was demolished to make way for a new stone courthouse.
The current courthouse was built in 1936 – 37 at a cost of $ 246, 734 ; it replaced the previous building which had been declared unsafe.
The current reinforced concrete courthouse replaced earlier wooden structures and was built during 1927-28.
In a string of bad luck, this new courthouse burned in 1855 and was replaced by another courthouse, which burned in 1857.
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* 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.
He always closed by saying, " Remember, we're in the alley behind the courthouse above the pool hall!
In front of the courthouse stands a commemorative plaque erected by the Tennessee Historical Commission:
He next starred in the loner Western Joe Kidd ( 1972 ), based on a character inspired by Reies Lopez Tijerina who stormed a courthouse in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, in June 1967.
He further stated that the harm to the cattle industry, combined with the railroad stopping the laying of track outside of Fort Worth, had caused Fort Worth to become such a drowsy place that he saw a panther ( cougar, mountain lion ) asleep in the street by the courthouse.
Attempting to make a citizen's arrest of the district attorney " to bring attention to the unscrupulous means by which government and Anglo settlers had usurped Hispanic land grant properties ", an armed struggle in the courthouse ensued resulting in Tijerina and his group fleeing to the south with two prisoners as hostages.
Socrates concludes the dialogue by announcing that all the two have produced is mere " wind-eggs " and that he must be getting on now to the courthouse to face his trial being brought against him by Meletus.
The third and current Montgomery County courthouse was the first courthouse designed by George W. Bunting of Indianapolis ; it is one of six of his Indiana courthouses still standing.
For example, the Los Angeles Superior Court added such checkpoints to all entrances to its main courthouse in Downtown Los Angeles after a woman was shot and killed by her ex-husband in open court in September 1995.
The Tribunal was a medieval merchant's house, used as the Abbey courthouse and, during the Monmouth Rebellion trials, by Judge Jeffreys.
The judges were implicated by another county judge who was being investigated as part of an FBI probe of events at the courthouse in Wilkes-Barre and corruption generally in the county.
On March 6, 1978, during a legal battle ( see below ) related to obscenity in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Flynt and his local lawyer, Gene Reeves, Jr., were shot by a sniper in an ambush near the county courthouse in Lawrenceville.
After the courthouse was destroyed by fire in 1851, the county seat was moved to Elba.
Shortly afterwards, Crockett became engaged to Margaret Elder and, although the marriage never took place, the contract of marriage ( dated October 21, 1805 ) has been preserved by the Dandridge, Tennessee, courthouse.
The first courthouse in Carrollton was burned on April 5, 1865, by troops of Union General John T. Croxton.
A second courthouse was also destroyed by fire on November 16, 1876.
The building was originally used by the federal government in order to house the federal courthouse and post office.
The Province of Ontario has committed to building a new provincial courthouse in downtown Kitchener, on the block bordered by Frederick, Duke, Scott and Weber streets.
The General Assembly specified that the new courthouse should be located in the center of the county, and was established at the corner of Old Little River Turnpike ( now Main Street ) and Ox Road ( now Chain Bridge Road ) on land donated by town founder Richard Ratcliffe.
A fire destroyed the courthouse ( designed by Thomas Jefferson ) in 1869 and most of the early records of this county were lost.
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