Knoxsville, GA

Courthouse in the background was built in 1832, and was used until 2001.
Wesley Fowler
For years before it went out of service, the courthouse was the oldest courthouse still in use in Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 2001-02, a new courthouse was built one block behind the old courthouse. The reason the new courthouse was built is because the old one was placed on the NRHP, which means no renovations or ad...ditions can be made to it, such as an elevator to the courtroom upstairs. A disabled person couldn't get to the second-story courtroom without an elevator, so the new one-story courthouse was built. The new courthouse has a clock tower on top of it, which sunk into the roof shortly after completion, causing major damage. It has since been fixed, but some local residents of Knoxville are still weary of it. Info from Wikipedia