Pike County Courthouse

Pike County Courthouse may refer to:

  • Pike County Courthouse (Arkansas), listed on the NRHP in Arkansas
  • Pike County Courthouse (Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Georgia
  • Pike County Courthouse (Petersburg, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Georgia
  • Pike County Courthouse (Mississippi), a Mississippi Landmark
  • Pike County Courthouse (Pennsylvania), listed on the NRHP in Pennsylvania

Famous quotes containing the words pike, county and/or courthouse:

    Did you ever hear tell of Sweet Betsy from Pike.
    Who crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,
    —Unknown. Sweet Betsey from Pike (l. 1–2)

    It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    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)