Lafayette County Courthouse (Missouri)

The Lafayette County Courthouse in Lexington is the judicial and administrative buildings of Lafayette County in the central northwestern part of the U.S. state of Missouri.

History

The courthouse was built in 1847 and is today the oldest continuously used courthouse west of the Mississippi.

It is also known that today a cannonball of the Confederacy can be visited in one of the columns that struck the American Civil War during the First Battle of Lexington there.

The Lafayette County Courthouse is listed since 1970 under the number 70000339 on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP).