The Cumberland County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at

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, Cumberland County, Virginia. It was built by Dabney Cosby (c. 1793-August, 1862), a master builder for

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, in 1818. It is a brick, one-story, rectangular, gable-roofed courthouse. The building features the

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throughout and a tetrastyle

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. 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)., an
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in 1994. It is included in the Cumberland Court House Historic District

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Cumberland County Courthouse, U.S. Route 60, Cumberland, Cumberland County, VA
3 photos and 2 photo caption pages at

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Cumberland County Courthouse, Clerk's Office, U.S. Route 60, Cumberland, Cumberland County, VA
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