1735 - Hanover Courthouse - Hanover, VA - Dated Buildings and Cornerstones on Waymarking.com

The well-preserved seat of Hanover County government retains all of the essential ingredients as well as the atmosphere of a rural Virginia courthouse settlement. Included in the complex is the arcaded courthouse of circa 1735, a major monument to Virginia's colonial architecture. Its surrounding green contains an 1835 stone jail and a somewhat earlier brick clerk's office. Across the road is the rambling wood-frame Hanover Tavern.

Other the Patrick Henry's "Parson's Cause case", a number of important events occurred at the courthouse including:

• Visited by William Byrd in 1741
• The famous Presbyterian minister Samuel Davies sent Hanover troops off to the French and Indian war with a sermon at the courthouse
• The Resolutions of 1774 sent John Syme and Patrick Henry to the Virginia Convention
• Visited by the Marquis de Chastellux in the fall of 1781 on his way to visit General Nelson at Offley (in western Hanover)
• Lord Cornwallis and his army camped here in 1781
• A Resolution condemning the African slave trade as dangerous was passed at this courthouse
• J.E.B. Stuart received his commission in the Confederate Army at the courthouse and had his cavalry headquarters here during the winter of 1863-64

Source: the above text is transcribed from a document posted at the courthouse.

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