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 STAFFORD COURTHOUSE, VA Posted by:  vhasler
N 38° 25.343 W 077° 24.512
18S E 289741 N 4255428
Built in 1922, the current courthouse is the third on this site. Most of the early county records were lost during the Civil War.
Waymark Code: WM9ZPW
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 10/23/2010
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STAFFORD (75 pop.) seat of Stafford County since 1715,
clusters around the COURTHOUSE, a brick building erected in 1922. Most of the early county records disappeared during the War between the States; a few of the documents, discovered in the New York Public Library, have been returned.
Called a mother of counties, Stafford, formed from Westmoreland in 1664, was gradually reduced as the population spread westward. It was the scene of 'Parson Waugh's Tumult' an abortive religious insurrection started in 1688 by John Waugh, who believed the story of an Indian, later discredited, and inflamed the people through sermons that told of a Catholic plot against Protestants.
---- Virginia - A Guide to the Old Dominion State, 1940.
Address is 1300 Courthouse Road, Stafford, Virginia 22554. Part of the "15th Judicial Circuit of Virginia". For more information, see court website: link
Book: Virginia
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 225
Year Originally Published: 1940
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