Statuary at the Shelby County Courthouse (Continued from the other side)

each of these pediments is the head of Minerva Roman goddess of wisdom. Since 1921 the south corridor has featured 'a bust of President Andrew Jackson. One of the founders of Memphis. Sculpted by John Frazee from life in 1935, the bust was purchased by teh City in 1858 and originally placed in Court Square, two blocks southwest of this site. The bust features as its base the words of Jackson's famous toast: "Our Federal Union" It mus and shall be preserved !" {This inscription was defaced during the Civil War but, like the Union itself, was soon restored.

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