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1831: Construction begins on new courthouse
Building Barnstable's new Courthouse
On this day in 1831, construction begins on a new courthouse in Barnstable village to replace one destroyed by fire four years earlier.
The structure, the columned facade of which can be seen in the photo, eventually becomes the county's superior court, situated close to the county jail and a district court built in the early 1970s.
The statue of Colonial Patriot Mercy Otis Warren was added a few yars ago as a counter balance to her brother's statue which the only one there for decades.
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