DeKalb County Courthouse

02/20/09

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Photo Gallery: DeKalb County Courthouse

Scattered around the courthouse are many markers, artifacts, and monuments chronicling the history of DeKalb county. Also on the grounds is a pedestrian walkway (with a tunnel underneath for a MARTA transit station) and a small pavilio n. At the front and back of the courthouse, older commercial buildings with modern businesses line the old courthouse road.

DeKalb County marker text:
DeKalb County, created by Act of General Assembly Dec. 9, 1822 and including Fulton County until 1853, was named for Baron Johann DeKalb, a native German who fought gallantly for American freedom. Wounded and captured at the Battle of Camden, S.C., August 9, 1780, he died a British prisoner. Most of the early settlers of DeKalb County came from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. First County Officers, commissioned March 18, 1822 in Fayette County, were: John S. Welch, Sheriff; Thomas A. Dobbs, Clerk Superior Court; Jonathan Dobbs, Clerk Inferior Court; John Calhoun, Coroner; James Adams, Surveyor.
044-29.5 Georgia Historical Commission 1955

Blue Star Memorial marker text:
A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America
Sponsored by
DeKalb County Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. Redbud District
in cooperation with
The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc.

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