| "Grand in appearance, substantial in construction and elegant in
detail. It is indeed a most imposing edifice, splendidly adapted to the
requirements it was designed to fill." So stated the Opelika
Industrial News, when describing the new Lee County court house on March
25, 1897. The present Courthouse was built while W. C. Robinson was
Probate Judge. Named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Lee County
was created by the Alabama Legislature on December 5, 1866, out of
portions of Chambers, Macon, Russell, and Tallapoosa Counties. Across
the street from this site stood the first Lee County Courthouse. Built
in 1867 by former slave and master bridge builder, Horace King, the old
Courthouse was replaced in 1896 with the beautiful Corinthian columned
building you now see, at a cost of $24,000. |
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