New Kent Courthouse

New Kent Courthouse is a Virginia historical marker in in New Kent Court House, New Kent County, dedicated 2016.

Rte. 249, in front of old courthouse, in New Kent Court House

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New Kent County, established in 1654, built a brick courthouse here by 1695. Fires in 1753 and 1775 destroyed the building and its successor. A later courthouse, damaged during the Civil War, was replaced in 1909. In 1736 county court justice George Webb published The Office and Authority of a Justice of Peace, an influential law manual. During the Revolutionary War, Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis's British forces passed through here in June 1781, followed by American troops under the Marquis de Lafayette, and an American military hospital was established here. Confederate and Union troops passed through during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1630 · Nova Virginia Tabula. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1670 · Virginia and Maryland As it is planted and Inhabited this present Year 1670 ... (John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)
1671 · Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · White House-Harrison's Landing. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1949 · New Kent, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula, 1671, covering the location of New Kent Courthouse, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula, 1671, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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