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

[2] State Senator John W. Stephens was assassinated by the Ku Klux Klan in the courthouse on May 21, 1870.

[3][4][5][6] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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