Our Webster County Courthouse at Walthall, MS

This is what I saw when I sat down at my computer on Thursday morning, January 17, 2013.

 I could hardly beleive my eyes.   I think Richard Love may have made this picture.  Someone had posted it and a WTVA news article on Face Book.  My daughter-in-law's office is just to the left of the tree.  This is the front of the building which was built in 1915 at a cost of $65,000!!!  It will cost millions to replace it.

This was also the morning we got snow here.  Some locals reported getting 4 inches.

The moon as seen through one of the upstairs windows.

The large windows with the curved tops shown here in the west wall, were in the court room.  

 The wall on the right of picture is the front of the courthouse and faces east.

 

The left side of the picture is the wall that faces north and the left faces west. Richard Love with the Eupora Volunteer Fire Dept. stated, " The final numbers are in. Per the Eupora Water Dept, we used 411 thousand gallons of water out of the Walthall water tank and we shuttled 244 thousand gallons in from Eupora totaling 655 thousand gallons of water we put on the courthouse yesterday morning. That is about 145 thousand gallons of water per hour (or just under 2,500 gallons per minute)"

I think they are already thinking of re-building.
This is Belenda J. Stewart, (Architect) and her employees.
I copied this picture from Face Book and I believe it belongs to Belinda Stewart.  Here is a quote from her Face Book page.  

"Belinda Stewart This building was built incredibly well. The vaults did their job - and more. The fire burned for several hours - and yet the records were not burned. There is a bit of water damage. The county has brought in a records restoration company to handle the records. The local fire department - as well as many neighboring fire departments and volunteers - did a heroic job in saving this building and these records! There are many HEROES here!!!"