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Market House Historical Marker
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Photo: David Seibert
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- Market House State Historical
Marker
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Located on U.S. 1 at the old Market in downtown Louisville
N 33° 0 W 082° 24.566
(Text)
- MARKET HOUSE
This Market House was built between
1795-1798 as a publicly owned multi-purpose trading house. Louisville
newspapers record sales of large tracts, household hoods, town
lots and slaves by sheriffs, tax collectors, marshals and people
of the community at the market House.
This square became the hub of the
transportation routes that centered on Louisville when the State
Capital was located here (1794-1807). Although portions of the
structure have been replaced, the Market House has never lost
its distinctive style.
Inside the Market House hangs a
bell that was cast in France for a New Orleans Convent in 1772.
The ship carrying the bell was sacked by pirates and the bell
was sold in Savannah. It was given to the State Capitol but was
used in the market House as a community warning signal.
- 081-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1978
- CITY OF LOUISVILLE
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- [Note: This marker replaced
an earlier 081-1 marker entitled "Slave Market" that
had similar though shorter text.]
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