Two wood-frame buildings — the courthouse (left) and jail (right) — sit behind a dirt road in this labeled photo from Roscommon, Michigan, dated c. 1940.
Roscommon County has been administered out of more than one courthouse over the years. One courthouse-history compilation notes that the county seat moved to the village of Roscommon in 1879, when a two-story wooden courthouse was built there — the kind of building this photo appears to show. By the mid-1960s, the county was using a newer courthouse building.
What do you know or remember about the old courthouse and jail in Roscommon — or about where they stood?
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