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1839 COURTHOUSE SQUARE A Self-Guided Tour - Part 3 THE COURTHOUSE SQUARE
The 1839 Courthouse Square experienced many changes over the years. Additions and alterations reflected the changing role of county government in a rapidly developing part of Michigan. Buildings were added to the Courthouse Square in the 1860s and 1870s to provide facilities for expanding county government. The sheriff’s house and attached jail were completed in 1870. A one-story building next to the sheriff’s house was built to house county records. It now appears as the rear portion of the county records building, with its two-story addition built in 1873. With the 1839 courthouse, the sheriff’s residence and the county records building, the Berrien Springs Courthouse Square contains the most complete set of nineteenth-century county government buildings in the Midwest. Please click on photos at anytime to view a larger version. |
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