HARRISON COUNTY COURTHOUSE

Authorization for the first county courthouse was made in 1787. The frame building was constructed on eight stone piers about ten feet high and citizens tied their horses to the pillars while conducting business inside the courthouse.The second courthouse was a two-story brick building completed in 1811.

The third courthouse, built in 1856, was a two-story brick with a cupola on top and had a wrought-iron balcony over the front entrance.A three-story red brick courthouse was erected in 1888. When this building was only forty-four years old, the citizens opted to replace it with the present courthouse.