The Historic Grant County Courthouse The first Grant County courthouse was a two-story, twelve foot by twenty foot frame building, erected building, erected in 1833.  The first floor was the court room, and the county offices filled the second floor.  It cost $684.00. The second courthouse, built in 1838, was made of bricks fired in the courthouse yard.  The clay was used from a large mound believed to b ...

Seven Gables Birthplace of James Dean James Byron Dean was born at the ÔÇØSeven GablesÔÇØ apartment house on the corner of 4th and McClure Streets in Marion Indiana ten miles north of Fairmount, on February 8, 1931.┬á He was the only child of Winton Dean, a dental technician, and Mildred Wilson Dean.┬á The family moved to Fairmount shortly after the birth of James. James Dean started school at the Fairmount ...