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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.
The courthouse features a gold leaf cupola clocktower with four faces. The main courtroom, located on the second floor measured 100 feet (30 m) by 82 feet (25 m), with a 30 feet (9.1 m) ceiling. The large clock in the cupola was the largest in the county at the time. The courthouse held its final session on November 11, 1970.
Spotsylvania Courthouse is a census-designated place (CDP) and the county seat of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States, located 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Fredericksburg. Recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP), the population was 5,610 at the 2020 census.
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]
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Location City or town Description 1: Bloomsbury Farm: Bloomsbury Farm: May 8, 2000 (#00000479) February 7, 2017: 9736 Courthouse Rd. Spotsylvania Courthouse: Also known as Harris Farm; [8] site of the Harris Farm Engagement during the American Civil War. [9]
View west along SR 208 Business in Spotsylvania Courthouse State Route 208 Business ( SR 208 Business ) is a business route of SR 208 in Spotsylvania County. Known as Courthouse Road, the highway runs 7.09 miles (11.41 km) from SR 208 near Post Oak east and north to SR 208 in Spotsylvania Courthouse.
The surrounding location is also significant as the site of the last engagement between Confederate and Union forces in the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 19, 1864. [1] Bloomsbury Farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in May 2000.