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The Cherokee County Courthouse built in 1868 to replace the one burned by Kirk’s Raiders at the close of the Civil War. It was replaced by a larger courthouse in 1892. -
The third Cherokee County Courthouse was brick with marble trimming completed in 1892 at a cost of $32,000. It would catch fire in 1895 but leaving enough structure for a fourth courthouse to be rebuilt on the same design in 1896. An arsonist destroyed the rebuilt courthouse in 1926. -
Bruce Voyles/Cherokee Scout At a cost of $256,000 in 1927, the current Cherokee County courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, shown here with a frosting of snow.
Shortly after the Cherokee had been removed and their land sold to private ownership by the government, in 1839 a new county was created from what was then a part of Macon County – named for the…