Once you enter downtown Mason, the one thing that towers over everything else and captures your attention is the Ingham County Court House.
Mason was founded in 1838 by Charles Noble from Monroe. After building a sawmill, he platted the first section of the village. That platting included what is now known as the courthouse square.
A direct road to connect with Lansing was laid in 1839, and the first court house was built in 1843 at 140 E. Ash Street, across from where the current court house sits…