Public Square-Courthouse Chronicle
Information provided by Donna Holt from the Johnson County Historical Society.
Transcribed by M.Antal

  1836  Site selected
*1838  Courthouse begun
  1840  First use of Courthouse
  1843  Fencing, also 1855, 1866
*1846  Well dug
  1847  Jail built
  1856  First meeting Warrensburg town government
  1857  Public scales provided
*1858  Locust trees planted
*1860  Sidewalk, curb, brace set on east
  1861  Clerks office built  Murder of County Clerk Foster by Circuit Court Clerk McCown and son
            Confederates occupy building briefly.
  1862  County records vanished
  1865  Use as Union Army headquarters; county records returned
  1866  Hitching posts and chains
*1867  Shade trees (pines..maples)
1867  Sidewalk - north and south sides
1868  Market house
1870  Old Drum Trial

* Exists today.