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>> [MUSIC] This
particular building was

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the original formal
courthouse for Cobb County,

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one of the oldest courthouses
in North Georgia anyway.

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And it was moved
down here in 1853.

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It was built in 1838
moved down here,

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pulled by oxen, rolled on logs.

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And the engineer,
Henry Green Cole,

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was the one who bought
the courthouse,

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and moved it down here because

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he wanted a house
for his daughter.

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And there was a big creek
that they had to go through.

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But he managed to get it

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through there because
he was an engineer.

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He was a railroad engineer.

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And he moved the house down here

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and put in petitions
up in the courtroom.

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And we've been here
now 20 years, I guess.

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The original ceilings, floors,

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woodwork, and even the mantles
are the original mantles.

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And upstairs and where
the court room was,

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it went all the way through.

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And the two partitions

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that set off the
two rooms upstairs,

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were put in after 1850.

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We know that because

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the outside walls and the walls

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down here were all
handmade lads.

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And the two walls that were put

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in were circular saw

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and that came in
1850 in Cobb County.

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So we know that the original
building was before 1850,

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and we know that

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the reconstruction of it
was done in or around 1850,

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and we know it was
1853. [MUSIC]