Jasper County was established in 1912 from portions of Beaufort and Hampton counties and was said to be named for Sergeant William Jasper, a hero of the American Revolution. The same act creating the county designated Ridgeland, incorporated in 1894, as the county seat. Charles E. Perry, John M. Langford, J.H. Woods, J.P. Wise, and Rodger Pinckney were the first county commissioners. Land for the courthouse was given to Jasper County in 1912 by Charles E. Perry, a local farmer, lumberman, and merchant. The courthouse was completed in 1915, with William A. Edwards, a native South Carolinian, as architect and C.V. York as contractor. The Georgian Revival building was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.