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Top right: Construction on the Carroll County Courthouse — Western District in Eureka Springs was completed in 1908. The building is an ex- ample of Italianate archi- tecture with tall windows and heavy stone courses around the openings. Below, left: This photo offers a closer view of the finial atop the Carroll County Courthouse — Eastern District in Ber- ryville. Below, right: This photo shows the Ber- ryville courthouse stairs in detail.
place but is now nearly deserted. Te brick court-house is burned down and the walls are not more than 3 to 5 ft. high, rubbish and broken bricks lying all around.” As Carroll County was
reduced by having parts carved from it for the creation of Madison, Searcy, Newton and Boone counties between 1836 and 1868, contentious elections were held that resulted in the county seat being moved to the more centrally located Berryville in 1875. Tat town had been established in the early 1850s by co-founders Blackburn Henderson Berry and Arthur A. Baker, its name decided by a coin toss — it could have been Bakerville. Berryville, too, had suffered in the Civil War, with only three buildings remaining when peace returned, so a new courthouse was necessary. County Judge A. Fanning appointed a commission on May 10, 1875, to select a town site for the new building. Black- burn Berry sold a lot for the building, while donating land east of the building for a town square. R.H. Jones designed
COUNTY LINES, WINTER 2017
the building and J.P. Fancher built it for $8,997.50. Te result was a simple two-story building with little ornamenta- tion and a flat roof, and county government moved in 1881. With the establishment of a second judicial district at Eureka
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