NRHP: Saunders County Courthouse
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Saunders County Courthouse
NRHP Reference #: 89002220
NRHP Listing Date: 19900110
Location
Chestnut bet 4th & 5th, Wahoo, Saunders County, Nebraska
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Summary
In 1867 Ashland was selected as the first county seat of Saunders County. An election in 1873, however, brought the county seat to Wahoo. The first courthouse in Wahoo was completed in 1874. By 1890 this building was deemed inadequate, but no further action took place in the nineteenth century. In 1903 voters passed a bond issue to help finance a new courthouse. Construction began the following year and in 1905 the Romanesque Revival-style courthouse opened.
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