Inside the courthouse.

The first set of photos were taken insiode the Caswell County Courthouse while we were learning its history.

The sheriff in town.

The "sheriff"'s name is Sterling Carter. He volunteers with the Caswell County Hisorical Society and was our tour guide and historian.

The basement of the courthouse where many of the prominent citizens of Yanceyville were detained during the Kirk-Holden War.

Another shot in the basement of the courthouse.

Outside, behind the courthouse.

Sterling giving us some information about the jail and the sheriff's quarters located on the ground floor.

One of our members sizes up the hanging noose.

The hanging cell . . . looking up.

A view from the hanging cell . . . looking down.

Inside the restored Poteat school house that was relocated to its current site.

They don't make text books like this anymore.

The photo is of an old text book displayed in the restored Poteat school house. We liked the passage about Jefferson Davis that read: "But unlike Lincoln, he was a man of great dignity."

Outside the Poteat school house.

A decorative pilaster on the exterior of the courthouse. Looks like a modification of the classical Corinthian order adorned with two heads of corn!

One of two photos of John "Chicken" Stephens' headstone.

Another view of the marker for John "Chicken" Stephens.

This next set of eight photos is of a brick mansion located down the street from the courthouse.

It was built as a gift for the daughter of one of the wealthy landowners in Yanceyville.

His own modest house was located right across the yard from it.

The clapboard house is believed to be the oldest residence in Yanceyville.

These are some photos of other structures on our field trip.