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Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in West Virginia.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
The principal building is the Spotsylvania Court House, a two-story Roman Revival style brick building built in 1839-1840 and extensively remodeled in 1901. The front facade features a tetrastyle portico in the Tuscan order. Associated with the courthouse is a late 18th-century jail and office and storage buildings erected in the 1930s.
Spotsylvania County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is a distant suburb approximately 60 miles (90km) south of D.C. It is a part of the Northern Virginia region and the D.C. area. As of 2024, Spotsylvania County is the 14th most populated county in Virginia with 149,588 residents. [7] Its county seat is Spotsylvania Courthouse. [8]
Martinsburg is a city in and the county seat of Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. [6] The population was 18,773 at the 2020 census , making Martinsburg the largest city in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and the sixth-most populous city in the state.
The West Virginia Division of Corrections is an agency of the U.S. state of West Virginia within the state Department of Homeland Security that operates the state's prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities. The agency has its headquarters in the state's capital of Charleston. [1]
Authorities have charged a former employee at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center in an alleged scheme where inmates reportedly got cell phones.
The Federal Aviation Administration Records Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia is the former United States Courthouse and Post Office for the city. It is a Richardson Romanesque style building, principally designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke, of the Office of the Supervising Architect. [2]
In 1871, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Virginia v. West Virginia, [7] upholding the "secession" of West Virginia, including Berkeley and Jefferson counties, from Virginia. [8] In 2011, West Virginia state delegate Larry Kump sponsored legislation to allow Morgan, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties to rejoin Virginia by popular vote. [9]