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Wayne County
Named for: General Anthony Wayne - Revolutionary War, Battle of Fallen Timbers
Organized: 1810
County Seat: Salisbury, 1810-1816
Centreville, 1816-1873
Richmond, 1873-
Number of Courthouses: 5

Number	Years	Type	Detail
1	1811-1812, Salisbury	Log	Builder: Wm. Commons. Still standing - Moved to Richmond - then to Centreville (Centerville)
2	1812-1816, Salisbury	Brick
3	1820?-1873, Centreville	Brick	Built at Centreville expense - Accepted August 1820
4	1873-1893, Richmond	Stylized	Arch: George Hoover. Occupied 8/4/1873. $22,700. Builder Thomas W. Roberts
5	1893-Present, Richmond	Castle	Arch: James W. McLaughlin. Plan accepted April 1890. $435,807. Builder: Aaron G. Campfield & Co., Bid $274,425, Paid $287,000. Completed March 1893.

The first circuit court ws held at the house of Richard Rue, three miles south of Richmond.

County Records predating 1812 are not available and thus details of the two Salisbury Courthouses are lacking.

The removal of the county seat from Salisbury to Centreville resulted in a four year legal battle from 1816 to 1820 and some commissions and court sessions remained in Salisbury partly because the county commissions did not accept the Centreville courthouse as complete until August 1820. A requirement of the county seat removal was that Centreville had to provide a courthouse equivalent to that of Salisbury.

Historical documentation indicate that the town of Salisbury had completely disappeared by 1870 and that all buildings had been deconstructed. One report is that the logs from the first courthouse were used in the construction of a homestead. If this is the case then is the log courthouse now sitting in Centreville the original courthouse, a reconstruction, or the private residence purportedly built from the logs of the original courthouse.

The 1873 County Seat move was away from the center of the county.