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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]
Location of Woodford County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Woodford County, Illinois.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Woodford County, Illinois, United States.
Some of the things Metamora is known for have to do with the school system in the Woodford County community.
Melvin Price Federal Building and United States Courthouse; Mercer County Courthouse (Illinois) Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site; Montgomery County Courthouse (Illinois) Monticello Courthouse Square Historic District; Morgan County Courthouse (Illinois) Moultrie County Courthouse; Mount Pulaski Courthouse State Historic Site
This is the third installment in a three-part series on the history of Wayne County's courthouses. The red brick Federal-style courthouse in Wayne County's seat of Honesdale is a landmark opposite ...
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 ...
A much larger, Federal-style, wooden courthouse was opened in 1817 on Bethany’s square. County officials, however, needed to better protect records, and in 1823 a brick structure was built in ...