This building, the fourth in a series of five Newberry County courthouses, was used for court sessions between 1852 and 1906. It is an outstanding example of Greek Revival architecture in stuccoed brick highlighted by six fluted Tuscan columns which support a massive triangular pediment. During Reconstruction, Osborn Wells remodelled the courthouse, including a bas-relief mounted on the frontal pediment. It depicts the spirit of the prostrate state with a United States eagle holding an uprooted palmetto tree in its talons while, perched upon the tree roots, a gamecock crows defiantly (it originally sported a gold coin for an eye). At the top of the tree a dove bears an olive branch.
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