>> [MUSIC] This particular building was
the original formal courthouse for Cobb County,
one of the oldest courthouses in North Georgia anyway.
And it was moved down here in 1853.
It was built in 1838 moved down here,
pulled by oxen, rolled on logs.
And the engineer, Henry Green Cole,
was the one who bought the courthouse,
and moved it down here because
he wanted a house for his daughter.
And there was a big creek that they had to go through.
But he managed to get it
through there because he was an engineer.
He was a railroad engineer.
And he moved the house down here
and put in petitions up in the courtroom.
And we've been here now 20 years, I guess.
The original ceilings, floors,
woodwork, and even the mantles are the original mantles.
And upstairs and where the court room was,
it went all the way through.
And the two partitions
that set off the two rooms upstairs,
were put in after 1850.
We know that because
the outside walls and the walls
down here were all handmade lads.
And the two walls that were put
in were circular saw
and that came in 1850 in Cobb County.
So we know that the original building was before 1850,
and we know that
the reconstruction of it was done in or around 1850,
and we know it was 1853. [MUSIC]