Caswell County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located in Yanceyville,

Caswell County, North Carolina Caswell County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is located in the Piedmont Triad region of the state. At the 2020 census, the population was 22,736. Its county seat is Yanceyville. Partially bordering the state of Virginia, ...

. It was built between 1858 and 1861, and is a rectangular two-story, stuccoed brick building, five bays wide and seven deep. It sits on an elevated

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block foundation and features a two-level recessed entrance porch and octagonal

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. State Senator John W. Stephens was assassinated by the Ku Klux Klan in the courthouse on May 21, 1870.http://ncccha.org/pdf/kukluxklan/reconstructionofwhitesupremacy.pdf It was added to the

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in 1973. It is located in the Yanceyville Historic District.

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* * Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina County courthouses in North Carolina Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Government buildings completed in 1861 Buildings and structures in Caswell County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Caswell County, North Carolina 1861 establishments in North Carolina {{CaswellCountyNC-NRHP-stub