The Bacon County Courthouse is a historic

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on Main Street in

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, Bacon County,

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. It was designed by architect J. J. Baldwin and completed in 1920.''The Courthouse and the Depot''
The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair: a Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910 Wilber W. Caldwell Mercer University Press, 2001 613 pages It was added to the

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on September 18, 1980. The

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was temporally used as the courthouse. According to its National Register nomination, the courthouse is one of only two in Georgia whose main entrances face the corner of a block. The other is the Morgan County Courthouse in

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* {{Commons category-inline, Bacon County Courthouse County courthouses in Georgia (U.S. state) Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Government buildings completed in 1920 Buildings and structures in Bacon County, Georgia National Register of Historic Places in Bacon County, Georgia

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