Stewart County GaArchives Photo Place.....Lumpkin, Courthouse Marker  December 1, 2005
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        COUNTY COURTHOUSE
This handsome structure was built in 1895 in the 
Classical style made popular by the buildings 
housing the Columbia Exposition in Chicago 
(1893-94) to which Lumpkin-born architect 
John Wellborn Root was a major contributor. It 
replaced a wooden courthouse built on the same 
site in 1837. The first seat of county government 
in 1831 was a small frame structure elsewhere on 
this square. In 1922 a fire destroyed the interior of 
the present building which was rebuilt in fire 
resistant materials. Fully refurbished in 1985, the 
building contains county offices, the Superior Court 
and virtually complete county records.

ERECTED BY THE HISTORIC CHATTAHOOCHEE COMMISSION 
AND THE STEWART COUNTY COMMISSION 1986 

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