Franklin County Courthouse - District#9

LEGES JURAQUE VINDICAMUS, or "We Defend Laws and Justice" is the official motto of Franklin County, a place where the fine town of Louisburg is the county seat and where the people have their own official county song. The act establishing the county authorized that the first court be held at the home of Benjamin Seawell. The justices were to determine where subsequent courts were to be held until the courthouse could be erected. In 1779 Lewisburg was established on land purchased by the commissioners for the erection of the courthouse.