Dillon County Courthouse Explained

Dillon County Courthouse
Location:Dillon, South Carolina
Coordinates:34.4181°N -79.3756°W
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Marker:building
Mapframe-Zoom:12
Mapframe-Caption:Interactive map showing the location of Dillon County Courthouse
Built:1911
Architect:William Augustus Edwards
Builder:J. A. Jones
Architecture:Classical Revival
Added:October 30, 1981
Refnum:81000564

The Dillon County Courthouse, built in 1911, is a historic courthouse located at 301 West Main Street in the city of Dillon in Dillon County, South Carolina.[1] [2] It was designed in the Classical Revival style by Darlington native William Augustus Edwards who designed eight other South Carolina courthouses as well as academic buildings at 12 institutions in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.[3] Dillon County was created in 1910 and this is the only courthouse it has ever had. On October 30, 1981, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is located in the Dillon Downtown Historic District.

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  1. Web site: Dillon County Courthouse . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . 1981 . pdf . 23 June 2012.
  2. Web site: Dillon County Courthouse, Dillon County (301 West Main St., Dillon) . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 24 June 2012.
  3. Web site: University of Florida biography of William Augustus Edwards . 2008-04-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080628235817/http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/ufarch/edwards.htm . 2008-06-28 . dead .