Court House Square, Williamstown	In the Snow,  1948

An account of the first meeting in the first courthouse in 1821 is here.

 

	Williamstown Post Office construction Scenes

 

The terra cotta in the Williamstown post office. 
A few more details here.

If you attended the grand opening of the new Williamstown post office - August 4, 1941 - you get one of these.

We're told the first female bootlegger in Grant County is believed to be one Addie Williams, an Afro-American woman who lived directly - and distilled - behind the Court House.

Court House Square, Williamstown

 

Courthouse Construction, c. 1937
From a Facebook post by Grant County KY Memories

 

Grant County laid the cornerstone for its new court house, its third, on April 30, 1938.
  The program is here, the story of the ceremony is here, and the story of the two boys
 in the reform school band who stole clothing after the event is here.

 

1966

We don't know if these are workers at the 1911 Grant Co. Courthouse, or whether it was simply taken at the Courthouse in 1911. From a Facebook post by Pamela Raisor Jeanet.

 

The Charity Jail, summer, 1970; watching the sesquicentennial parade
(not the building; that black contraption people are sitting on. Citizens got “arrested”
and had to call people to “bail them out.” A charity fund raiser.)
From a Facebook post by the Grant County Historical Society

 

Grant County Officials, Coming in and going out, 1936.

The first Grant County court house was built on William Arnold's farm,
and lasted until 1859, when the building immediately below was built.

City Utility Commission's Truck, w. Mark Leming
From a Facebook post by John Erin

 

Account of the first court. Transcript.	1822 plat of Williamstown
From Facebook posts by the Grant County Historical Society

Grant County advertises solicitation of bids for building a new courthouse. In 1851

Courthouse

The following images are all from 1901:

The second Grant County Courthouse, 1901
This building was torn down in replaced by a new building by
the WPA in 1938-1939.

 

The Old Jail, Williamstown	The New Jail, Williamstown	The Grant County Clerk's Office, Williamstown, 1901
Absalom Skirvin, who came to what is now Grant County in the 18th century, built the first jail in Grant County, and was a founding member of the old Dry Ridge Baptist Church. -from an email from Donald Skirvin

Fire at the jail in 1909.

The Fiscal Court bought all the toll roads in the county in 1898. Turnpikes / toll roads were very unpopular.