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Old County Courthouse

Old County Courthouse (also known as Plymouth Old County Courthouse or Old Town House) is an historic court house on Leyden Street and Market Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts near Burial Hill and First Parish Church in Plymouth.


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140th Pennsylvania Infantry

Recruited in late 1862, it fought from the Battle of Chancellorsville through the war until the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Arthur C. Morgan

His work is in private collections and public buildings such as Louisiana State University, Centenary College, the US Federal Court House at Alexandria, Louisiana and the US Capitol in Washington D.C. Through the span of his career Morgan had long-lasting friendships with Jules Bache, Bernard M. Baruch, Lincoln Borglum, Frances Elliott Clark and Jean Despujols.

Birlingham

The 11th Earl of Coventry stayed at The Court House in 1930-31 while his home at Croome Court was being renovated.

Bronx Borough Courthouse

For several years, since the annexation of the West Bronx in 1874, several Bronx advocates including Louis F. Haffen, and The Association of the Bar, in the Borough of the Bronx, in the City of New York, had consistently been striving for the placement of a proper court house in the borough.

Bulloch County Courthouse

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

Cambridge, Illinois

The Henry County Court House, designed by Thomas J. Tolan & Son, Architects, of Fort Wayne, Indiana (1875–1878), is the key architectural landmark of the village.

Guardian Bank

# Westlands Branch - Brick Court House, Mpaka Road, Westlands, Nairobi

James Colgate Cleveland

The first was the renaming of the United States Post Office and Court House building in New Hampshire's capital city, Concord, to the James C. Cleveland Federal Building in 1980.

James Riely Gordon

Bergen County: Another surviving work from Gordon's New York period is the Bergen County Court House at 10 Main St, Hackensack, N.J. Its cornerstone was laid July 6, 1910 and the building completed in 1912.

John Coburn House

In 1851 he was arrested, tried, and acquitted for the court-house rescue of Shadrach Minkins, a freedom seeker who was caught in Boston by federal slave catchers empowered by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Lawrence Schiller

His own books that became national bestsellers and made the New York Times Bestseller list include American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Cape May Court House, and Into the Mirror. He has directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys.

Paul Dax

1530 he devoted himself to glass-painting, and his works, which are of considerable merit, are now in the court-house of Innsbruck, and in the town-hall at Ensisheim, Alsace.

Powhatan, Virginia

Powhatan was initially known as Scottville (after Revolutionary war hero General Charles Scott) for a brief time, and historically has also been known as Powhatan Court House and Powhatan Courthouse.

Sir Richard Morrison

Among his public works were alterations to the cathedral at Cashel, the court-house and gaol at Galway, court-houses at Carlow, Clonmel, Roscommon, Wexford, and elsewhere, and St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, the Catholic Pro-cathedral at Dublin.

Supreme Court of Belize

A new reinforced concrete court house was built in 1926 in Belize City.

WCHO

WCHO-FM, a radio station at 105.5 FM licensed to Washington Court House, Ohio

William Burnett House

William Burnett was a prominent Union Township resident in the middle of the 19th century: an 1850 publication recorded him as serving as a constable for the township and as a marshal for the village of Washington Court House.

William Vitruvius Morrison

His public buildings include Carlow County Court House (1828),Tralee County Court House, County Kerry (1828) and the Ross Monument, Rostrevor, County Down (1826), commemorating Major-General Robert Ross (1766–1814).

Williamsport-Washington Township Public Library

A new library building was completed in 2002 at 28 East Second Street, across State Road 28 from the Warren County Court House and County Jail buildings.