Remembering Suwannee: County Site Selection Drama Part 4

Eric Musgrove Contributor This week, we will continue our discussion of the events that led to the location of the Suwannee County Courthouse. In the Wednesday, July 31, edition of the Riverbend News, we discussed the effects of the election that determined that the county site would be located at the Parshley location (the current location of the Suwannee County Courthouse), as well as Clerk of Court Nelson Conner’s blackmail attempt that ultimately failed and the stress of the lawsuit probably had something to do with his untimely death. The county commissioners had been meeting above the Parshley Store since the 1870 loss of the Baptist Church building that had served briefly as th