Based on the neo-classical lines of the State Capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson, there came into being a series of courthouses which were suggestive, if not actual, representations of the seat of state government.
It brings together in one volume a history of the Fairfax County Courthouses and a manual of the organization and operation of governmental affairs centered within them over the years.
These changing ideas of what a court chamber should look like became established during the first half of the nineteenth century, and were reflected in the courthouses built in Virginia during that period.
It was also characteristic of Virginia that these courthouses were not single buildings, but were complexes of several structures.
In the larger courthouseswhere there are many terms or parts in one building, there is an air of confusion.
The observer of that age must have been shocked and surprised to find the solemn courthouses turned into what was known as moving-picture palaces or as community centers for dancing and social entertainments.
It is unfortunate that many documents in the county courthouses were destroyed in the Revolution and the War between the States.
At the courthouses local politicians began to denounce the act to willing listeners.
Angry men gathered everywhere, in the coffee houses, on the village greens, or around the courthouses to discuss the burning of Portland in the midst of a Maine winter, or the arming of the slaves by Dunmore.
He was already familiar with arcades at the capitol at Williamsburg and at the College of William and Mary, as well as at outlying courthouses where he practiced, the courthouse at Stafford probably included.
All the successive Stafford courthouses from 1722 on probably were built on the old foundations; if so, the Stafford building was the earliest T-form courthouse yet known in Virginia.
Brick courthouses were not unknown; one was standing in Warwick when the Act for Ports was passed in 1691.
His route this time was long and devious, taking him to both Caroline and King William County courthouses on the way, for a total of 121 miles in five days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "courthouses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
