The Evans County Courthouse is a historic government building and clock tower

Clock tower

A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. Some clock towers are not true clock towers having had their clock faces added to an already existing building...

 located in the city of Claxton, Georgia

Claxton, Georgia

Claxton is a city in Evans County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,276 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Evans County.-History:...

, United States

United States

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, the seat

County seat

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 of Evans County

Evans County, Georgia

Evans County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia in an area known as the Magnolia Midlands within the Historic South region. A bill creating the county was passed in the Georgia General Assembly on August 11, 1914, and later, on November 3, 1914, an...

. The courthouse was built in 1923 and is the home of Evans County's Superior Court

Superior court

In common law systems, a superior court is a court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil and criminal legal cases...

 and the base of the county's government. On September 18, 1980, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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.

History

Evans County was created in 1914, first by a proposed constitutional amendment in the Georgia General Assembly

Georgia General Assembly

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 on August 11 and then officially ratified by a vote of the citizens of Georgia on November 23. With the creation of the new county a courthouse was needed. The first building used as such was the White Building, a three-story edifice built by Mr. R. King White and later bought by Mrs. Ben Daniel. Mrs. Daniel's husband, Dr. Ben Daniel, used the building as his office. This building was used until 1923, when the current courthouse was completed. The work was done by J.J. Baldwin and West Point Iron Works for $60,000 dollars. On December 28, 1994 the American Legion

American Legion

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 erected a monument to those men from our county who died in various wars, beginning with World War I

World War I

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 and ending with the Vietnam war

Vietnam War

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. The interior to the courthouse was remodeled in 1979 and 1980 and, in 2003, the bell tower clock was restored.