<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e11809ab-d0c0-47e8-b54d-589e4452b3fb/9B03B7B3-EA35-43A4-9852-D96D965FAB73/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/lickingcounty/stories/2008/06/14/0615lshiddenhist_ln.html" href="http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/lickingcounty/stories/2008/06/14/0615lshiddenhist_ln.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thisweeknews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/lickingcounty/stories/2008/06/14/0615lshiddenhist_ln.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thisweeknews.com/img/6A9D2C8D-F6F9-459A-BFB9-680A30306E5C" alt="Lady Justice is seen here from one of the windows in the Licking County Courthouse tower just below the clock, as she watches over downtown Newark." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/lickingcounty/stories/2008/06/14/0615lshiddenhist_ln.html"> At least one historical record of visitors to the Licking County courthouse is hidden from view, behind the walls, above the second-floor courtrooms and offices.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/lickingcounty/stories/2008/06/14/0615lshiddenhist_ln.html"><P>It is there, flanked by dusty records of the county's past, that the names and dates of 132 years worth of visitors are written and scratched in the walls.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/lickingcounty/stories/2008/06/14/0615lshiddenhist_ln.html"><P>William Pancoast signed one of the courthouse walls in 1898. His signature is surrounded by etchings from the early and mid-1900s near one of the stairwells to the dome. The same walls house the names of Clay's Electric workers, who sign annually when hanging Christmas lights on the courthouse.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/lickingcounty/stories/2008/06/14/0615lshiddenhist_ln.html"><P>"You wonder if some of the people who signed (the walls) are still living," said Licking County Probate Juvenile Court Judge Robert H. Hoover, leading a tour to the tower.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/lickingcounty/stories/2008/06/14/0615lshiddenhist_ln.html"><P>History is a hobby for Hoover, whose first tour in the forgotten fourth floor of the Licking County courthouse was in 1979.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/lickingcounty/stories/2008/06/14/0615lshiddenhist_ln.html"><P>"It's the history and record of people who've been up there for the last 132 years," he said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9B03B7B3-EA35-43A4-9852-D96D965FAB73/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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