BROWNSTOWN — While trick-or-treaters won’t hit the streets of the county seat until this evening, some spooks, goblins and other characters were able to pick up a few sweet treats early by visiting the Jackson County Courthouse on Thursday evening.

The annual trick-or-treat night, sponsored by Brownstown/Ewing Main Street, allowed county employees and those with some local organizations and businesses to get in on the fun as well.

But the event was aimed at the children including Brownstown sisters Lily and Claire Redicker, who showed up as a witch and a vampire.

Lily said she decided to be a witch this year because she really liked the costume she chose, and she also was looking forward to getting all of the candy she could.

Heather Scott visited the courthouse with Eric Jensen and her granddaughter Angel. All three were dressed as unicorns.

She said Angel’s “favorite thing in the world” are unicorns so that led to their costume decision.

Scott said she loves to design “kids stuff” and crafted her and Angel’s costumes. Jensen’s, on the other hand, was store-bought.

Angel wore multicolored fingernails to match her costume.

Enthusiastic for Halloween, the unicorns were not the only costumes the trio wound up wearing this year. For a recent costume contest in Seymour, Scott went with six other people and a dog all dressed up as bumblebees.

Kurtz native John Kruse went trick-or-treating as his favorite superhero, Captain America. He said he was excited to get some Kit Kat bars — his favorite candy — and looked forward to getting more candy before Halloween was over.

Christian and Liam Nolan, both from Brownstown, were dressed as Revenant from the video game Apex Legends. While they were fans of the game, the pair said their favorite game is Minecraft.

Liam said he was excited to get some Whoppers after looking at the candy he had managed to collect already.

Dressed as Mal from Descendants, Erica Leonard was trick-or-treating with her mother Natasha Plank.

Leonard said she was excited for her costume because she has never gone as Mal before and loves purple and blue and the character’s ability to dye her hair with a spell.

She said while her favorite candies are Skittles and Fruit Roll-Ups, she wanted to eat everything.

Trick-or-treat night at the courthouse was first held in 2017. There was even a Halloween parade that year and the next.

Those participating in this year’s event included officials with the Jackson County History Center, Jackson County 4-H, the Jackson County Visitor Center, the Brownstown McDonald’s, Edward R. Jones financial advisor Ryan Kemp, the county’s Chief Public Defender Alan Marshall, county Treasurer Kathy Hohenstreiter and county Recorder Amanda Lowery.

Many of those providing candy were dressed festively for the occasion. Hohenstreiter and Lowery, for instance, donned witch’s hats.

Heather VonDielingen, the 4-H youth development educator for Purdue Extension Jackson County, provided a picture frame that the trick-or-treators could use to take selfies, and Marshall handed out candy in an interactive candy bowl the kids had to touch before receiving sweets.

Every table was was filled with sweet treats except the one for Brownstown McDonald’s, where there was free cookies and coupons for free Happy Meals.

Trick-or-treating in Brownstown is tonight from 6 to 8 p.m.