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Pike County Courthouse
Historical Marker
Location
of sign - 100 E. 2nd St. Waverly, Ohio
Photo
taken - September 2007
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Pike County Courthouse
The
Pike County Courthouse was at Piketon from 1815-1861 when county
residents voted to move the county seat to Waverly. The Waverly
Public Square was donated to the county by the Meschech Downing
family in September, 1861. A committee was appointed to oversee the
courthouse construction and the completed structure was deeded to
the county in December 1866 for $5. An addition was added to the
front in 1909. Inside, the common pleas courtroom houses busts of
entrepreneur-businessman and first millionaire of Pike County, James
Emmitt, and his wife, Louisa, and a mural of "Blind
Justice" painted by late local lawyer, W. T. Reed.
Pike County Courthouse
Commissioners, The Ohio Historical Society 1992 2-66
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