Courtesy of larrymcc.com
Calhoun artist Larry McCallister is doing pen and pencil drawings of 55 WV county courthouses. His rendition of neighboring Ritchie County is among those he has completed.
Three times a week, sixty-five-year-old Joe Bishop climbs two rickety ladders to wind the 80-year-old clock in the tower of the Ritchie County Courthouse.
The current courthouse, a neoclassical structure made with Indiana limestone, was built in 1922. It was placed on the National Historic Register in 2004.
The two-story building also has a basement, four columns at the entrance, decorated cornices and silver aluminum on the tower.
Ritchie County was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1843, from parts of Harrison, Lewis and Wood counties.
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