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By 1843, this corner of the old town square contained the county's first log jail, whipping post, and stocks. In 1893, Stanly County's second courthouse, a tall, two-story, Victorian-style building, was constructed on this site. Even though the building was renovated and remodeled in 1926, a number of efforts over the decades that followed were made to replace it until it was finally demolished in 1973. Once a part of the public lands that surrounded the courthouse, the present layout of Courthouse Square Park was dedicated in 1996.
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Albemarle, North Carolina · United States
