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Surviving records from Eighth Circuit courthouses such as Metamora show that Lincoln and his colleagues practiced general, unspecialized law. They served as criminal defense counsel, handled divorce and family-law cases, oversaw the passage of estates through probate , and were available to handle a wide variety of civil suits and disputes.
Metamora was the county seat of Woodford County from 1843 until 1896. The Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site, a courthouse from this period, is preserved as an Illinois state historic site. Future President Abraham Lincoln and future Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I practiced law there. [citation needed]
The community in which the courthouse is located is known as the county seat. The oldest current courthouse is the Putnam County Courthouse, built in 1839, while other courthouses have been built since 2010. Many courthouses were built following the destruction of previous buildings, either planned or unplanned; however, some former courthouses ...
Named after District Court judge James Augustine Walsh in 1985. Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse: Tucson: 405 West Congress Street D. Ariz. 2000 present Named after Arizona Supreme Court justice Evo Anton DeConcini. United States Court House: Yuma: 315 West 19th Street D. Ariz.? 2014 John M. Roll U.S. Courthouse: Yuma: 98 West 1st Street Yuma ...
Central Illinois history with themes of people, politics, work and farming: McPike Mansion: Alton: Madison: Metro-East: Historic house: Menard County Historical Society Museum: Petersburg: Menard: Central: Local history [45] Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site: Metamora: Woodford: Western: Historic site: Restored to 1850s period, also ...
The Samuel E. Dimmick Mansion was built at the corner of Court and 9th streets, Honesdale, in 1869. In 1920, the Wayne County Memorial Hospital started there, and it was purchased in 1952 for the ...
It was only in 1894 when a final election provided a decisive majority in favor of moving the county seat to Eureka that Metamora lost its status as county seat. [26] An impressive new courthouse building was quickly constructed in Eureka, cementing that town's status as legal and governmental center of Woodford County.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Maricopa County, Arizona, excluding those in Phoenix, for which there is a separate list. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maricopa County, Arizona , United States, excluding Phoenix.