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| | Alpine County Superior Court/State of California - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Ron James, author of "Temples of Justice", points out that in many Nevada counties, when the people decided that the time had come to build a courthouse, they seemed to rise to the grandeur of the occasion regardless of constraining circumstances such as finances or local architectural expertise. |
 | | In 1916, DeLongchamps had designed the Douglas County Courthouse in Minden, and it is very possible that this fact was related to the decision by the Alpine County Board. |
 | | During the eleven years between the two elections, the voting population of the county had decreased from 1,660 to 172, reflecting the drop in total population from approximately 11,620 to 1,204, when the demonetization of silver caused a general exodus from all the mining communities. |
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