Did You Know? / Franklin County Courthouse

Did You Know?, also, Franklin County Courthouse. . [Side A:] , Did you Know? A tightrope performer called Monsieur LeRey gave a performance in 1881 walking on a tightrope stretched from the roof of the two-story brick building on the southeast corner of the Square to the second-story window in the Courthouse cupola. In February 1917, Chero-Cola Bottling Company, formerly the Blue Seal Bottling Works owned by H. F. and C. S. Blue, moved into the building which had been occupied by the Post Office before 1914., [Side B:] , Did you Know? In June 1863, F. A. Loughmiller left for Charleston, South Carolina for the purpose of buying goods and necessities of life to bring back to Winchester and sell at cost and carriage. He took twenty thousand dollars with him, which was raised through the exertions of Colonel A. S. Colyar in a patriotic endeavor to alleviate the sufferings of those in Franklin County whose limited means was insufficient for the purchase of even the common necessities of life., Franklin County Courthouse This distinctive four-sided, three-level, Bedford limestone building, completed in 1937 on the site of an older brick courthouse built in 1836 and a much smaller brick one built before that in 1814, is an outstanding example of Art Deco architectural style of the Great Depression era.