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Fulton County Has New York’s Oldest Courthouse in Operation
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Bang the gavel: Fulton County Courthouse is the oldest courthouse in New York still in daily operation.
Erected in 1772, it is only one of five colonial courthouses still remaining in the entire nation. The bricks for the building were brought in from Holland, and a triangle made from a piece of bent iron is still in the belfry and is used to announce the assembling of court.
The building was originally known as the Tryon County Courthouse, then renamed the Montgomery County Courthouse and finally the Fulton County Courthouse during the Revolutionary War.
