Genesee County Courthouse

Genesee County Courthouse is a Michigan historical marker in Flint, Genesee County, dedicated 1989.

920 South Saginaw St., Flint

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Genesee County was organized on March 8, 1836. The previous year the territorial legislature had stipulated that the county seat would be located on the west side of the Saginaw Turnpike “on lands recently deeded by John Todd and wife” to Wait Beach. Beach would in turn donate two acres of land to the county for “a courthouse and public square, one acre of ground for a burial ground, two churches and two school lots of common size.” The first courthouse and jail was constructed on this site in 1839. In 1866 an inmate in the jail burned the structure. The second courthouse, completed in 1867, was replaced by a more spacious building in 1904. That courthouse also burned. On August 31, 1926, the present Neo-Classical-style structure, designed by Frederick D. Madison, was dedicated.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1836 · New Map Of Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1853 · Map of the surveyed part of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1854 · A map of the surveyed part of Michigan / by John Farmer ; engraved by S. Stiles & Co. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Genesee County, Michigan (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Flint, Genesee County, Michigan. (Library of Congress)

New Map Of Michigan, 1836, covering the location of Genesee County Courthouse, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — New Map Of Michigan, 1836, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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