Wayne County Courthouse in Goldsboro, North Carolina

Nov 6, 2015 Fri0

Laurie and I like riding our Gold Wing motorcycle. But it is easy to get into a rut and just ride the same roads. So to force ourselves to ride to places we would not normally visit we made a goal to visit and photograph all 100 North Carolina courthouses within 1 year.

As usual, we got a little behind. We started in July 2015 and finished 99 out of 100 by June 2018. The last courthouse was in our home county of Wake and it took us until Feb 2021 to get that final one. But we made it! This blog is about one of those visits.

Many NC courthouses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The nomination form has some interesting facts about the various courthouse styles over the years.






Courthouse Information


Wikipedia did not have any information about this courthouse but it was built in 1914.




County Information


The North Carolina History Project lists the following information for this county:

The Saponi and Tuscarora Indians originally inhabited the area that later became Wayne County. Later, English and Scotch-Irish colonists settled in the region. Wayne County was formed from Dobbs County in 1779 in North Carolina's Coastal Plain. The county is named after "Mad Anthony" Wayne, one of George Washington's most trusted generals, who earned the nickname because his courage.

Wayne County consists of approximately 555 square miles between Greene, Lenoir, Duplin, Sampson, Johnston, and Wilson counties. The first county seat Waynesborough, which no longer exists, was established in 1787 on Andrew Bass's land. In 1850, the county seat moved to Goldsboro, North Carolina. Other prominent locations include Mount Olive, Walnut Creek, Seven Springs, Eureka, Pikesville, Dobbersville, and Dudley. As of 2010, Wayne County was the home of about 123,000 people.

Wayne County is the home of many historic buildings and sites including the Paramount Theatre (1868) the Weil House (1875), the Governor Charles B. Aycock Birthplace (1893), and the Goldsboro City Hall (1910). Wayne County also hosts numerous events and festivals and is the home of many cultural institutions. The county is the home of the Paramount Center for the Performing Arts, the Community Arts Council, the Stagestruck Theatre Company, the Goldsboro Civic Ballet, and the Wayne County Museum. Every year the County hosts the Wayne Regional Agricultural Fair, the North Carolina Pickle Festival at Mount Olive, and the Fremont Daffodil Festival.

Wayne County's economy includes both agricultural and manufactured products. The county's agriculture produces tobacco, corn, wheat, oats, vegetables, soybeans, cotton, hogs, poultry, dairy, and cucumbers. Manufactured goods include pickles, relishes, furniture, textiles, banking equipment, and electric transformers. The Mount Olive Company, which exists in the town of the same name, is one of the leading pickle manufacturers. Mount Olive is also the home of the Mount Olive College founded in 1951. Wayne County is also the home of the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, which contributes greatly to Wayne's economy.






Our Experience


We kept getting confused while looking for this courthouse. Our first stop was City Hall. It looked like a courthouse with a clock and two golden figures on the roof. Our next guess was the Wayne County Museum since old courthouses are often made into museums. However this building was originally the Goldsboro Woman's Club built in 1927.

Eventually we located the actual courthouse which was hard to photograph because of the trees in front of it. This is the second courthouse we have visited where the letter "V" is used instead of "U".

There is a quote attributed to Ronald Reagan that I like:

Most of them were boys when they died. And they gave up two lives - The one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for their country. For us. All we can do is remember.


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