Posted November 29, 200717 yr Apparently "Court House" is commonly added to county seat names in Virginia. Who knew?
November 30, 200717 yr God Bless America. Or atleast Jeffersonville Outlets. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 30, 200717 yr I always thought Washington Court House was just the outlets! No idea there was a town!!
November 30, 200717 yr Apparently "Court House" is commonly added to county seat names in Virginia. Who knew? It's not so much added to as it is descriptive of what it was, like, for example names such as Sioux Falls or Salt Lake City. Since Virginia was settled primarily through land grants, the settlement pattern of large plantations was what emerged. Because the administrative unit in colonial Virgina was the county, the county court house was typically a building (probably doubling as a tavern, or at least with one adjoining) placed at the convenience of the plantations in the county. That a town would grow up around it was after the fact. So to take probably the most famous example, Appomattox Court House was the court house of Appomattox County before it was a town. Another interesting thing about Virginia is that unlike Ohio, cities there are typically seperate from the counties. So while all of Cincinnati is in Hamilton County (though conversely, not all of Hamilton County is in Cincinnati), Richmond and Henrico County are separate corporations. Despite that, Richmond is the seat of Henrico County, that is, the Henrico County courthouse is in Richmond. New England and Pennsylvania were settled in entirely different manners from that of Virginia. Ohio's rather complicated township/county and village/city system was something of an amalgamation of competing traditions of settlement. It is a truism that northern Ohio was settled largely by Virginians (as well as others from the Upper South) and northern Ohio was settled primarily by New Englanders, but the Miami Purchase was originally made, surveyed and settled by New Jerseymen (New Jerseyites?), and accordingly Penn's layout of Philadelphia on a grid pattern was adopted (the primary surveyor of the Cincinnati grid was Israel Ludlow). Though the grid was clearly advantageous for rapid new settlement, I wonder that if the investors had come from Massachusetts or Connecticut that there would instead be a circle where Fountain Square is with a prominent church on the site as well.
November 30, 200717 yr ^Thanks for the history lesson, always appreciated! Warshington Court House is looking a little rough around the edges these days.
November 30, 200717 yr ^ i saw what you did thar. Shouldn't it be, "I seen what you done thar" ? I reckon' yer right about that thar grammar.
December 10, 200717 yr My grandmother and her husband lived in WCH when I was younger. I remember the first time my dad said we were going up to visit her in WaRshington Court House, I thought we were going to go see her in jail LOL..I always wondered how the name came about.
October 8, 20195 yr Anyone from WCH or environs familiar with this guy?https://www.recordherald.com/news/20710/two-more-complaints-filed-against-myers Guy seems a "bit" off.
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