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.

) The county courthouse and county administration are usually located in the county seat, but some functions may also be conducted in other parts of the county, especially if it is geographically large.

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

Its county seat is Medford.

On June 8, 1847, before any settlers or loggers, a team of surveyors entered the county southwest of Medford, where County E now enters from Clark County.

There are 11 incorporated cities and 34 unincorporated communities in Jackson County ; the largest is Medford, which has been the county seat since 1927.

Jacksonville fended off suggestions to move the county seat until 1927 when Medford was finally selected as the county seat.

Its county seat is Medford.

Medford became the county seat through an election held on May 27, 1908.

A moderate county in New Jersey politics, Burlington County in recent years has become an important area for the Republican Party, especially in more affluent communities that have developed new residential areas, such as Medford, Mount Laurel, Moorestown, and Evesham ( as opposed to areas along the Delaware River occupied by minority and working class households ).

Crater Lake is located in Klamath County, approximately northwest of the county seat of Klamath Falls, and about northeast of the city of Medford.

Medford is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Oklahoma, United States.

With the creation of Jackson County, it became the county seat, a role which was transferred to nearby Medford in 1927.

DeKalb budget shows county is on beam

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

And I have established that the action of municipal, county, or state school boards or boards of education is small, infinitesimally small in comparison with the number of districts.

Or is this subject a matter of self-determination, a matter of states rights or county rights??

The monthly cost of ADC to more than 100,000 recipients in the county is 4.4 million dollars, said C. Virgil Martin, president of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., committee chairman.

`` Actually, the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the function of this court '', said Karns, who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court.

Mrs. Greenfield is president of the Westfield Women's Republican Club and is a Westfield county committeewoman.

Although he pointed out that mandatory legislation impinging on home rule is basically distasteful, he added that the vital interest in election results transcended county lines.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

It is the only county in the state so far this month reporting a possible shortage in GA category, for which emergency allotment can be given by the state if necessary.

The affidavit concludes in the standard format " sworn ( declared ) before me, of commissioner for oaths / solicitor, a commissioner for oaths ( solicitor ), on the at in the county / city of, and I know the deponent ( declarant )", and it is signed and stamped by the commissioner for oaths.

Thus at Mobile the annual mean is 67 ° F ( 19 ° C ), the mean for the summer 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ), and for the winter 52 ° F ( 11 ° C ); and at Valley Head, in De Kalb county, the annual mean is 59 ° F ( 15 ° C ), the mean for the summer 75 ° F ( 24 ° C ), and for the winter 41 ° F ( 5 ° C ).

The largest abalone recorded in California is 12. 34 inches, caught by John Pepper somewhere off the coast of Humboldt county in September 1993.

Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

Angus () is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area.

Montrose in the north east of the county is notable for its tidal basin.

* California Penal Code Section 158: " Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($ 1, 000 ).

Boone is the county seat of Watauga County and the home of Appalachian State University.