The Chatham County Courthouse is a historic

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located at Pittsboro,

Chatham County, North Carolina Chatham County ( )
, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the

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style. It features a two-story classical portico crowned with a distinctive three-stage cupola. A one-story addition was built in the 1930s by the

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. In 1959, extensive renovations were performed on the building. It was listed on the

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in 1979. It is located in the Pittsboro Historic District. A fire on March 24, 2010, did great damage to the building which was in the midst of another renovation. The restored building reopened April 20, 2013 with an exhibit covering Chatham County history on the first floor and a courtroom on the second. In 1907, the county gave a license to the

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to place a statue of a

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soldier outside the courthouse. In 2019, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners voted to rescind this license, and the statue was removed as part of the trend toward

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in the 2010s.Confederate Statue in North Carolina Comes Down After 112 Years
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