The Green County Historical Society Museum, open afternoons from Friday through Sunday May through September this year, has many historical photobooks for sale. 

Among them this photo of the Courthouse clocktower steeple that came tumbling down in a cloud of dust in March of 1956. It left the building without the familiar spire for the first time in history. Workmen pulled the steeple off with ropes and it fell through the trees to the west of the building after high winds had loosened portions of it, endangering passersby. A cement cap was hoisted up and placed on the tower. Monroe Quester Clubs restored the turret in 1985 through county and community-wide fundraising efforts.

Questions or comments can be made to Linda Lostetter at lostetter68@gmail.com or sent to P.O. Box 804 in Monroe. The historical society is still looking for pictures that show the building of the courthouse.