Site of Territorial Courthouse
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This Historical Marker is located at the northeast corner of Courthouse Plaza on the southwest corner of the intersection of Cortez and Gurley Streets in downtown Prescott, Arizona.
Waymark Code: WMFH1N
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 10/19/2012
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Site of Territorial
Courthouse
The courthouse you see today, constructed in 1916 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is not the original one on this site. The first courthouse constructed on the Plaza, one of two city blocks set aside in 1864 for government use, was a smaller, but more elaborate brick structure built in 1878. It was an impressive structure that immediately became the symbolic focal point of a young Yavapai County. Many important cases were heard here in the days when Prescott served as the Territorial Capital of Arizona (1864-1867 and 1877-1889). Arizona became State in 1912, four years before the current courthouse was constructed.
Funded by the Historic Preservation Fund and the City of Prescott
Marker Name: Site of Territorial Courthouse
Type of history commemorated: Place
County: Yavapai
Name of any agency/ agencies setting marker:
Historic Preservation Fund
City of Prescott
Year placed: Unknown
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Visit Instructions:
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