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Old Chattahoochee County Courthouse

Coordinates: 32°23′02″N 84°57′31″W / 32.3839°N 84.9585°W / 32.3839; -84.9585
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Old Chattahoochee County Courthouse
Old Chattahoochee County Courthouse in the Historic Westville museum
Old Chattahoochee County Courthouse is located in Georgia
Old Chattahoochee County Courthouse
Old Chattahoochee County Courthouse is located in the United States
Old Chattahoochee County Courthouse
Location3557 South Lumpkin Rd.,
Columbus, Georgia
Coordinates32°23′02″N 84°57′31″W / 32.3839°N 84.9585°W / 32.3839; -84.9585
Arealess than one acre
Built1854 (1854)
Architectural styleCarpenter style
MPSGeorgia County Courthouses TR
NRHP reference No.80001233[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 18, 1980

The Old Chattahoochee County Courthouse was built in Cusseta, Georgia, in newly created Chattahoochee County in 1854. After it was no longer used and slated for demolition, it was moved to Westville, in Lumpkin, Georgia, an outside museum depicting life in west Georgia circa 1850. The Lumpkin location of Westville closed in July 2016, and in 2019, the museum was moved to Columbus, Georgia, near the Columbus Public Library.[2]

It is a wood building, 50 by 60 feet (15 m × 18 m) in size, with four rooms downstairs. It is one of two remaining wooden courthouses in Georgia, the other being Old Marion County Courthouse. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Westville website