European city squares always take cathedrals as the core. What is the core of American small counties? Generally speaking, it is always a legislative assembly and a court as a legal symbol. Scattered around, is a loose civil society.
The history of Albert County is the epitome of North American history. It used to be the land of Indians, which was extremely vast and sparsely populated. In Georgia, which was still a British colony at that time, Wright, the British governor, negotiated with the leaders of local Indian tribes, in part to repay the loans of British businessmen who were Indians. In the Indian concept, it is just idle and useless barren hills and dense forests. In this way, in the next revolutionary war, Georgia used these lands to establish Wilkes County. This is the famous "new land purchase case" in the colonial history of North America.
Soon, the American Revolution began. During the eight-year war of independence, it became the battlefield of fierce conflict. Tories who sided with the British colonial government, American patriots who advocated independence, and Indians.
After the independence of the United States, the army was dissolved, but the newly established country was poor and the country still owed a lot of money to veterans. One way of compensation is to divide the land. A large area of land bought by the "new land purchase case" is still idle there and began to be distributed to veterans, which has caused a climax of immigration here. A large number of families moved from neighboring Carolina and Virginia. 1790 12 According to the legislation of the Georgia legislature, this land with a rapidly increasing population was zoned out from Wilkes County. The new county was named General Samir Albert, who was a soldier commemorating the American Revolutionary War. At that time, he had just stepped down as governor of Georgia.
1788, in the era of Washington, the first president of the United States, postal services began here. Albert's old inn is the mail receiving and dispatching station in town. The hotel is not big, but it has a resounding name, called "Global Hotel". This postal route passes right in front of us. Of course, there was no Little Square at that time. It's just a small piece of flat land between the mountains.
For a society ruled by law, the court is the most important department after the establishment of the local government. 179165438+1October 20th, just 40 days after the legislation was established, the Albert County High Court held its first session. Of course, the court building cannot be built in just 40 days. This session was borrowed from a private house, which was the home of a manor owner Carter. Although the court's venue is informal, its chief justice, George Wharton, is famous and everyone here knows it. He was one of the leaders who signed the American Declaration of Independence and represented Georgia against the British royal family.
Later, the court building was built in 1893, on the original site of the "Global Hotel". It is a red brick building with a bell tower, and its shape is a solemn and proud Romanesque revival. Just around it, those simple and tasteful two or three-story buildings began to surround, and Little Square began to take shape. Now the court building is newly built, leaving the square and becoming a granite building, but the architectural form is completely a replica of the original.
This is a typical southern Little Square, simple and beautiful. It is said to be "South" because it has a symbol of the South-the Confederate soldier monument in the center of the square. There is another interesting story about this "Confederate soldier".