This cache is part of a series of North Alabama Civil War Trail. The North Alabama Bientennial Passport is available from http://www.northalabama.org/.
. The tour will take you around north Alabama to visit 20 historic sites. It will not be necessary to pay an admission charge to find any of the caches although some may charge admission to tour their facility. A paper punch will be in the cache and should be used to punch the appropriate spot on the passport. If you choose to find the cache before all caches and the passport are available just punch a piece of paper with the cache name and date found, this will be accepted for your coin. 200 trackable geocoins are available to the first 200 cachers to complete the series. Several locations in North Alabama will have the coins and their location is on the passport page of the above link.
The Historic Somerville Courthouse is the oldest original courthouse in Alabama. The Courthouse was constructed in 1837 and court was held there until the county seat was moved to Decatur in 1891.