(2) From: The Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, Published 1890 by Goodspeed. The Courthouse In 1842 the present brick courthouse, (1890 being the present year), was completed at a cost of probably $4,000, and was the only brick building in the entire county. It is thus seen to be almost half a century old, and its walls, sitting on the crossing of two roads have looked down on the quaint old buildings of the square, and down the four shaded streets all these years. A jail was built later on and still serves the unlucky prisoner. NEW LEWISVILLE and CANFIELD are now clamoring for the county seat, and the people will decide the matter by vote on August 26, 1890. New LEWISVILLE confidently left a square in the center of her plat for the new courthouse.