Clinton Courthouse

Clinton's courthouse began as a contract. The Police Jury took a $23,000 bid from Lafayette Saunders, and he resigned his seat on the jury once it was accepted. J. S. Savage drew the plans for a brick Greek Revival block with a Doric colonnade on every side and an octagonal cupola. Accounts differ on the design, since one local guide credits Saunders with it as well. Clinton had been the parish seat since the parish was created in 1824, so the lawyers working across Woodville Street were never far from the bench.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Audubon State Historic Site — 18 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 20 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 22 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.

More markers nearby

• Courthouse and Lawyers' Row Historic District — steps away
• Lawyers' Row — steps away
• Centenary College's Main Academic Building — 12 mi
• Battle of Jackson, Station One — 12 mi