Goochland County Court Square is a historic county

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and national

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located at Goochland,

Goochland County, Virginia Goochland County is a county located in the Piedmont of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its southern border is formed by the James River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,727. Its county seat is Goochland. Goochland County is includ ...

. It includes three contributing buildings and one contributing site. The Goochland County Court House was built in 1826 by Dabney Cosby, an architect of the area. It is a two-story, temple-form brick structure with a projecting pedimented tetrastyle

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. Other buildings in the square include the 1848 two-story, hipped-roof stone jail; the original one-story, brick clerk's office; and a monument to the Confederate dead of Goochland County. The latter was erected in the late 19th or early 20th century. an
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in 1970.

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External links

Goochland County Courthouse, East Side of U.S. Route 522, Goochland, Goochland County, VA
4 photos, 1 color transparency, and 2 photo caption pages at

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