twenty-four-foot-square

Updated: June 3, 2025

In Jonesboro the log court-house, with its clapboard roof, was abandoned, and in its place a twenty-four-foot-square building of hewn logs was put up; it had a shingled roof and plank floors, and contained a justice's bench, a lawyers' and clerk's bar, and a sheriff's box to sit in.

Theodore Roosevelt - The Winning of the West, Volume 2 : From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783