Caswell County Courthouse

United States historic place


Caswell County Courthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Caswell County Courthouse, March 2009
36°24′11″N 79°20′11″W / 36.40306°N 79.33639°W / 36.40306; -79.33639
Area	less than one acre
Built	1858 (1858)-1861
Architect	Cosby, John William
NRHP reference No.	73001309^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 4, 1973

Caswell County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located in Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina. 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.^[1] It is located in the Yanceyville Historic District.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Survey and Planning Unit (April 1973). "Caswell County Courthouse" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
^ "Life in North Carolina: The Murder of Senator John W. Stephens -- A Terrible Scene -- Shall His Assassins Be Amnestied?", from The New York Times, 26 February 1873.
^ “THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WHITE SUPREMACY: THE KU KLUX KLAN IN PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA, 1868 TO 1872” Bradley David Proctor
^ http://ncccha.org/pdf/stephens/mysteriousdeathofjohnwstevens.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ http://ncccha.org/pdf/kukluxklan/reconstructionofwhitesupremacy.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

External links

Media related to Caswell County Courthouse (North Carolina) at Wikimedia Commons
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-192, "Caswell County Courthouse, Main Street, Yanceyville, Caswell County, NC", 4 photos, 7 measured drawings, 3 data pages, 1 photo caption page