Coshocton County is named for the Delaware Native American word meaning “union of waters”, or an Indian name meaning “Black Bear Town.”
Surrounding County Courthouses:
N – Holmes County and Tuscarawas County
E – Tuscarawas County and Guernsey County
S – Muskingum County
W – Licking County and Knox County
Created: January 31, 1810 
County Seat:
Coshocton 1810 – present
County Courthouse – Coshocton
Location: 349 Main Street / South 3rd Street
Built: 1873 – 1875
Style: Second Empire and Italianate
Architect: Carpenter & Williams of Meadville, Pennsylvania
Contractor: Carpenter & Williams of Meadville, Pennsylvania
Description: The building faces south and is a three story red colored brick and stone structure. The building is located on spacious landscaped grounds in the center of Coshocton. The south front has projecting center tower with entrance on the first story and rising five stories to a sloped roof with clock. The windows are narrow and arched. A wide eave runs along the top of the second story with recessed dormers and mansard roof on the third story. There is stone trim along the corners of the building. In the interior, the transverse hallways are flanked with two, open cast iron stairways. The County Court of Common Pleas courtroom is blessed with a breathtaking mural painted in 1908 by renowned artist Arthur William Wolfle. The mural, Wolfle’s first canvas painting, is thirty feet long, five feet high, and of magnificent color. The painting depicts the famous signing of the peace treaty by British Colonel Henry Bouquet and the Delaware Indians near the Coshocton County Walhonding River in November, 1764. The building houses the County Court of Common Pleas. The building was renovated in 1954.
See: Ohio Court of Appeals – Canton ( 5th Appellate District )
History: The county was created in 1810 and Coshocton was selected as the county seat in 1811. The court met in rented rooms, in Colonel Charles Williams Tavern and then in a building owned by Wilson McGowan. The first courthouse was a log house built in 1819. In 1824 the second courthouse was a two story structure built in 1824 on the public square at a cost of $1,984. A belfry with bell forged in Pennsylvania was added in 1834. The third and present courthouse was constructed in 1873 to 1875 at a cost of $65,597.
County Courthouse – Coshocton
Photos taken 2011
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