Muscatine County was named for either the Muscatine Native American tribe, the Native American word for prairie, or Muscatine Island in the Mississippi River.Muscatine County’s first courthouse was a two-story brick building on a stone foundation in Bloomington (renamed Muscatine in 1851). It was destroyed by fire in 1864.
The second courthouse was built in 1867. The two-story brick structure featured a dome topped with a statue of the goddess of justice.
Muscatine’s county current courthouse is a three-story Beaux Arts designed by J. E. Mills, constructed with concrete and Bedford limestone. Completed in 1909, it features a clock tower dome supported by stone pillars. The Muscatine County courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
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