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Douglas County Courthouse is a historic courthouse at 6754 West Broad Street in Douglasville, Georgia, United States. The courthouse was built in 1956, [2] after the 1896 courthouse burned down. [3] It was built where three prior courthouses originally stood. [3] It was designed in the International Style by Harry E. Roos, Jr. of Southern ...
The Douglas County Courthouse is located at 1701 Farnam Street in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Built in 1912, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Notable events at the courthouse include two lynchings and the city's first sit-in during the Civil Rights Movement .
The Douglas County Courthouse is a government building in Tuscola, the county seat of Douglas County, Illinois, United States. Completed in 1913, it is the third courthouse in the history of Douglas County. Douglas County's first pioneers arrived in 1829, although occasional squatters had been present beforehand.
Historically, the county, like all of Western Oregon north of the Rogue Valley, also leaned strongly Republican: before 1964 the only other Democrats to carry Douglas County had been John F. Kennedy in 1960, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936 and 1932, Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and William Jennings Bryan in 1896.
The county was created during Reconstruction after the American Civil War.The Georgia General Assembly named it after abolitionist Frederick Douglass but later changed the spelling to instead credit former Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas as its namesake, [3] an Illinois senator and the Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860.
Douglas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population is 584,526. It is the state's most populous county , home to just under 30% of Nebraska's residents.
Douglas County is a county located in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census , the population was 11,578. [ 1 ] The county seat and only incorporated community is Ava . [ 2 ]
Douglas County Courthouse may refer to: Douglas County Courthouse (Georgia), Douglasville, Georgia; Douglas County Courthouse (Illinois), Tuscola, Illinois; Douglas County Courthouse (Kansas), Lawrence, Kansas; Douglas County Courthouse (Minnesota), Alexandria, Minnesota, listed on the National Register of Historic Places