Old County Courthouse (also known as Plymouth Old County Courthouse or Old Town House) is an historic court house on Leyden Street and Market Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts near Burial Hill and First Parish Church in Plymouth.
The courthouse was built in 1749 and is allegedly the oldest wooden courthouse in America. The building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Currently the building is known as the 1749 Court House and Museum, and is open from June to September with exhibits of early Plymouth history.
Famous quotes containing the words county and/or courthouse:
“I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,—if ten honest men only,—ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is told that some divorcees, elated by their freedom, pause on leaving the courthouse to kiss a front pillar, or even walk to the Truckee to hurl their wedding rings into the river; but boys who recover the rings declare they are of the dime-store variety, and accuse the throwers of fraudulent practices.”
—Administration in the State of Neva, U.S. public relief program. Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State (The WPA Guide to Nevada)