{"id":3860,"date":"2012-02-23T14:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalheritage.org\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","slug":"jackson-county-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2012\/02\/23\/jackson-county-courthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson County Courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jackson County, created in 1851, built a brand new town named Webster to be its county seat. Court was held at Daniel Bryson\u2019s home and at Alan Fisher\u2019s store until the courthouse was finished. In 1887, a second courthouse was built, but the new railroad had bypassed Webster three years earlier. In 1913, a controversial election moved the county seat a few miles north to Sylva, a new town that had sprung up alongside the railroad.\u00a0 Jackson County\u2019s third courthouse was modeled on the recently built Madison County courthouse, a brick neo-classical revival building. The picturesque building is situated on a low hilltop and dominates downtown Sylva. It is advertised as North Carolina\u2019s most photographed courthouse, a claim no longer technically true since Jackson County built its fourth courthouse in 1994.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Courthouse60Mx.mp3|titles=Courthouse60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson County, created in 1851, built a brand new town named Webster to be its county seat. Court was held at Daniel Bryson\u2019s home and at Alan Fisher\u2019s store until the courthouse was finished. In 1887, a second courthouse was built, but the new railroad had bypassed Webster three years earlier. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[148,287,311,513],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-institutions","tag-courthouse","tag-historic-site","tag-jackson-county","tag-sylva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8762,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/8762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}