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The Clinch County Courthouse is the county courthouse of Clinch County, Georgia, in the United States. Located in the county seat of Homerville, the building was built in 1896 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.Clinch County Courthouse
GeorgiaInfo/Digital Library of Georgia. It is one of two National Register of Historic Places-listed sites in Clinch County, the other being the Old Clinch County Jail, which also was added to the Register in 1980. The courthouse is designed in the
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functional style, with Classical Revival additions. There is a historical marker at the intersection of Georgia State Route 37 and North Cemetery Road west of Homerville describing the first courthouse site from 1850, a private residence.Historical marker
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History

Clinch County was created by an 1850 act of the
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, from portions of Lowndes and
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counties. The act established a commission of five members responsible for choosing a county seat and building a county courthouse and provided that until the courthouse of build, elections and court sessions be held at the home of Jonathan Knight. In 1852, the first courthouse was built. It was destroyed by fire in 1856. A second courthouse was built in 1859, but this too burned in a fire, in 1867. The third and current courthouse was completed in 1896. A 1936 Works Progress Administration project rehabilitated the courthouse and added an addition.


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Clinch County Courthouse, Homerville, GA, US.jpg, Courthouse in 2015 Clinch County Courthouse, inside, Homerville, GA, US.JPG, inside Clinch county Courthouse, courtroom, Homerville, GA, US.jpg, Courtroom Clinch County Courthouse, courtroom bench, Homerville, GA, US.jpg, Bench


See also

* Old Clinch County Jail


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External links

* {{Commons category-inline, Clinch County Courthouse Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Buildings and structures in Clinch County, Georgia County courthouses in Georgia (U.S. state) Government buildings completed in 1896 Victorian architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Neoclassical architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Clinch County, Georgia