Jones County Courthouse - Ellisville, Mississippi
Jones County is named for John Paul Jones, who was a naval fighter during the American Revolutionary War and who lived from 1747 to 1792. The Jones County Courthouse in Ellisville, Mississippi faces west and is a two story buff colored brick and concrete structure and is located in the center of Ellisville. The west front has a projecting portico with four columns rising to a pediment at the roof line. There is a balcony on the second story. A horizontal belt runs below the projecting cornice below the roof line. There are stone trim and small pediments above the windows. On the north and south sides are large porches with two high columns rising to the top of the second story. There are wide balconies on the second story. The roof line is flat. The courtroom is located on the second story.

**The courthouse is almost identical to the courthouse in Laurel, Mississippi as both courthouses were constructed at the same time. (Jones County maintains both as county courthouses with dual county seats until a vote in the November 2020 election where residents will decided whether to keep both or consolidate to one county seat and courthouse.) The cornerstone of the Laurel courthouses shows the date July 4, 1907 and the cornerstone Ellisville courthouse shows the date July 4, 1908.**

On either side of the steps leading into the courthouse are two relics of Mississippi's segregated past sitting exactly where they have sat on the walkway for nearly 88 years. They are concrete water fountains that once read &quot;colored&quot; and &quot;white.&quot; The engravings &quot;colored&quot; and &quot;white&quot;, indicating which races could use which fountains, were covered by historical plaques in 1989 by the Jones County Board of Supervisors after rejecting an offer from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) to put the fountains in a museum and replace them. (And this, as well, is on the November 2020 ballot for the county residents to determine whether to leave them in place or start the process with the National Register of Historic Places and the MDAH to have them removed.)

This courthouse was registered on the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1994.

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