Crawford recounts why Jackson County�s courthouse sits where it does and courthouse-era details

Crawford told the interviewer the county seat was relocated from Webster to the rail town because the railroad made the new location more practical. "The courthouse used to be in Webster," he said, and explained that when the railroad came through, "they decided to move the county seat from Webster to Silver."

He also described the courthouse interior: the clerk of court's office, sheriffs office, a cabinet where confiscated guns and knives were kept in the 1940s, and a jail in which a family lived and tended prisoners. Those details illustrate both the administrative functions and daily life around the historic courthouse site.