CHAPTER XXI.
GROVE TOWNSHIP.

COUNTY COURT HOUSE

On the 20th of October, 1869, after a canvas of the vote on the relocation of the county seat, the board declared in favor of Atlantic, and issued the following order: "That, in consideration of the Atlantic Town Company making a warrantee deed to all of block 52 in said town of Atlantic to the county of Cass, Iowa, for county building and purposes, the same being in full for the grounds which said town agreed to donate to said county for public buildings, and upon the said Town Company erecting the building in manner and form as required by their bond, within sixty days, upon block 34 in said town of Atlantic, and the same is accepted by a committee appointed by this board, upon their certifying the acceptance of said building to the county officers, they are immediately required to remove their books, papers, and offices to the county seat at Atlantic, into said building.

The court house at Atlantic was completed according to the letter of the bond made with the town company, but its accommodations were soon found to be inadequate for the increasing official business of the county. The first County Board composed of three commissioners-at-large met in the little new court house, in January, 1871, but before the end of the year the headquarters of the county government were moved to the opposite corner into the Park House, a building which had been only partially completed for a hotel. The county rented it for $1,200 per annum, and it was used for court house purposes until the completion of the second official building in 1882. The Park Hotel then reverted to its original purposes.

"Compendium and History of Cass County, Iowa." Chicago: Henry and Taylor & Co., 1906, pg. 232.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, July, 2018.