Volunteers working to save historic Stoddard County courthouse

Monday, August 31, 2015

BLOOMFIELD -- Located on the "Lancaster Square" in the small town of Bloomfield, the Stoddard County Courthouse is a county treasure. The clock in the cupola is a "Maria Strike" clock, only one of four similar clocks in the state of Missouri. Though the original courthouse was burned during the Civil War, a portion of that building was incorporated into the current structure, when it was rebuilt in 1867-1870 and remodeled again in 1909.

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