Taliaferro County Courthouse

Photo: Keith Hair

Note: This is NOT the official web site of Taliaferro County or of any county officials; it is an educational web site about the history of the county courthouse and the county itself.  For the address and phone number of the courthouse and county officials, see the NaCO web page for Taliaferrot County, linked below:

Address and Phone Number: See NaCO web page for Taliaferro County

Location: Crawfordville

Date Built: 1902

Architectural Style: High Victorian

Designer: Lewis F. Goodrich

Other Information: This is only the county's second courthouse. The first was erected in 1828; it was torn down in 1901 to make way for the present courthouse, completed in 1902.

County Courthouse Historical Marker: Click here

County History: Taliaferro (pronounced "Tol-i-ver") County was established on Dec. 24, 1825 by an act of the General Assembly (Ga. Laws 1825, p. 58). Created from portions of Greene, Hancock, Oglethorpe, Warren, and Wilkes counties, Georgia's 69th county was named for Col. Benjamin Taliaferro, who served in Revolutionary War and the U.S. House of Representatives (1799-1802).

County Seat: Crawfordville [incorporated in 1826 and named for former U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Treasury William H. Crawford].

Maps

• Historical Maps of Taliaferro County
• Georgia DOT Map of Taliaferro County, pdf (421K)

Size of County (Total Area): 195.5 square miles

County Rank in Total Area: 143rd out of 159

Population:

Taliaferro County

• 2,077 (2000)
• Taliaferro County Historical Population Profile

City of Crawfordville

• 572 (2000)

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