[4] In 1796 three men were appointed to be commissioners: Drury Jones, John Mikell and Israel Bird.

[2][3][5] The fourth Mondays in April and October were the only two days that the superior court met each year.

[5] Benjamin Richardson, Drury Jones, Joseph Rogers, and John Everett, and Stephen Denmark are the justices of the inferior court that were appointed through 1800.

[7] On December 5, 1864 the 15th Corps of General William Sherman's army burned the courthouse.

The total cost of the courthouse was twenty thousand dollars, which included furnishings.

The open flame system is thought to have been used for some years before being dismantled with no record as to its success in helping to cool the building.

In 1904, the lynching of Paul Reed and Will Cato occurred after the two African American men were removed from the courthouse.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy raised the money for the monument that presides on Court House Square.

"[citation needed] The former bank building now housing the Averitt Center for the Arts appeared in "1969" as a bus station.

[10] It was renovated in 1914 in the Classical Revival and Queen Anne styles by Edward Columbus Hosford, who is noted for the courthouses and other buildings that he designed in Florida, Georgia and Texas.

The rest of the white plaster that was not removed was just painted a red brick color.

Also in the 1990s, Bulloch County built a judicial annex, which is located across the street from the courthouse.