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Early County Courthouse

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flagpole, erected in 1861, which flies the Stars and Stripes; it was hewn from a long leaf pine harvested about a mile from the county seat. The flagpole is 100 feet tall and is believed to be the only original Confederate flagpole still standing. The courthouse square also contains a monument to the
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Early County was chartered in 1818 and Blakely was established as the county seat in 1825. Early County's first courthouse was a log building, first used in 1827. That building was sold for $ 13 and moved, making way for the second courthouse. That two-story wooden structure was built in 1834.
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The county's third courthouse, a western-facing building, was built in 1857-58 by Thomas Williams for $ 4,650; it was sold for $ 155 to make way for the fourth and present courthouse, built in 1904-1905. The third courthouse was described by the
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The courthouse is two and half stories and is made of brick on the exterior, with marble floors in the main public spaces. It is in the
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as dangerously unsafe and dilapidated. The proposal to build a new court building "was tinted with a light wash of
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peanut, carved in stone atop a pedestal, commemorating the enduring importance of this
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
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The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Early County, Georgia
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recommended a new courthouse, and a January 1905 piece by the
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National Register of Historic Places in Early County, Georgia
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Early County Courthouse is located in Georgia
Early County Courthouse is located in the United States
Blakely, Georgia
31°22′39″N 84°56′3″W / 31.37750°N 84.93417°W / 31.37750; -84.93417
Classical Revival
MPS
Georgia County Courthouses TR
80001015
Early County, Georgia
Blakely, Georgia
county seat
contributing building
Blakely Court Square Historic District
New South
grand jury
architectural rendering
Thomas Henry Morgan
John Robert Dillon
Neoclassical
rusticated
granite
Beaux-Arts
Confederate
cash crop
National Register of Historic Places listings in Early County, Georgia
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service

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