Historical Highway Markers

Washington County Courthouse

K-55

Three earlier courthouses stood on this site, the first constructed about 1800. The present Washington County courthouse was completed in 1868, replacing the 1850 building burned by a Union soldier in Dec. 1864. The only new courthouse built in Virginia during Reconstruction, it features four Greek Doric columns and an Italianate cornice and tower. A Civil War monument located in the courtyard was unveiled on 10 May 1907 to commemorate the men who served from Washington County. Dedicated on 4 July 1919, a Tiffany stained-glass window above the courthouse entranceway honors those who served in World War I.

Department of Historic Resources, 2000

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

James William Hagy, “Courthouses of Washington County,” Virginia Cavalcade 25 (Autumn 1975): 80-85; Washington County Courthouse, National Register of Historic Places Nomination File (140 -26), DHR; John O. and Margaret T. Peters, Virginia’s Historic Courthouses (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1995), 130-132.