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The Cumberland County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Cumberland, Cumberland County, Virginia. It was built by Dabney Cosby (c. 1793-August, 1862), a master builder for Thomas Jefferson, in 1818. It is a brick, one-story, rectangular, gable-roofed courthouse. The building features the Tuscan order throughout and a tetrastyle portico. Also included are the contributing small, brick, one-story clerks office; the brick, two-story, gable-roofed former jail; and Confederate Civil War monument (1901).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It is included in the Cumberland Court House Historic District
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External links
- Cumberland County Courthouse, U.S. Route 60, Cumberland, Cumberland County, VA: 3 photos and 2 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Cumberland County Courthouse, Clerk's Office, U.S. Route 60, Cumberland, Cumberland County, VA: 1 photo at Historic American Buildings Survey
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