The (Red Wing) courthouse was completed and turned over by the contractors in August, 1859. The excavation, the stone work and the carpenter work was done by Hill, Simmons & Co., the contractors. The brick was made by John Carter, and laid in the wall by Messrs. Brink, Todd & Co. (History of Goodhue County Minnesota, Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., Chicago, 1909, Page 114)