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County: Ohio

First Public Building

Marker Number: 

1196

Location: 

Hartford, Courthouse lawn, US 231

Ohio County's first jail and courthouse, a combined two-story, log structure, built 1799-1800. The second-story courtroom was of "well-hewed logs, with a raised bench for the court, a bar for the attorneys, with bannisters and rails." This building collapsed in 1813. The material salvaged was burned to celebrate the victory of Commodore Perry on Lake Erie.

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