Photo original caption: “This building was the Pope County Courthouse, in years before the change of the county seat to Russellville in 1888. Here such men as W. H. Pynter and Reece Hogan were familiar figures.”
The photo was originally published in The Courier-Democrat, Sept. 6, 1933.
Also, the county seat was moved in 1887, not 1888.
The article about the building’s demolition is from the Judsonia Weekly Advance, April 4, 1917.
The article has the wrong date for the move of the county seat to Russellville. It wasn’t 1884. The vote that moved it was March 19, 1887, but it was tied up in litigation until June.