Old Courthouse

Old Courthouse is a Virginia historical marker in Northampton County, dedicated 2016.

16414 Courthouse Road (Rte. 13) in Eastville

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Northampton County was one of Virginia's eight original shires formed by 1634. It encompassed the entire peninsula south of Maryland and was known as Accomac until the General Assembly changed its name in 1643. Present-day Accomack County broke off in 1663. Northampton’s court, first held in Town Fields, was moved to present-day Eastville in 1677. The 1731 courthouse, the third built here, was relocated to the north edge of the green to save it from demolition in 1913. From its door the Declaration of Independence was read on 13 Aug. 1776. The two-story Romanesque Revival courthouse was built in 1899.

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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)
1787 · [French troops route to Yorktown] (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)
1942 · Cheriton, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Nova Virginia Tabula, 1630, covering the location of Old Courthouse, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Nova Virginia Tabula, 1630, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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