Remembering Suwannee : County site selection drama, Part 9

Eric Musgrove Contributor This week, we will complete our multi-part discussion of how the current location of the Suwannee County Courthouse came to be. In this final article, we will finish looking at the fates of the previous courthouses. Once the Parshley lot in Live Oak was finalized as the county site and a courthouse was built there, what happened to the building originally constructed in Live Oak by Nathan Walker and Henry Wyse and then sold to Elijah Henderson, which had twice nearly been the courthouse? After his 1871 proposal to use it as a courthouse, Henderson continued using the building as a school until 1873. In that year, Henderson sold it to the “Florida Bethlehem Bap