Mathews County Courthouse Square is a national

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located at Mathews,

Mathews County, Virginia Mathews County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,533. Its county seat is Mathews. Located on the Middle Peninsula, Mathews County is included in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk- Newpo ...

. It encompasses seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, two contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects on Courthouse Square. The courthouse is a T-shaped,

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style brick building constructed in 1792–1795. Associated with the courthouse are the clerks office (1859), the former jail and later sheriffs office, "Old Jail," and Mathews County Library (1930). Several monuments occupy the square, notably the Confederate monument, the 1928 Fort Cricket Hill monument, and a World War I cannon. an
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in 1977.

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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia County courthouses in Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Federal architecture in Virginia Government buildings completed in 1795 Buildings and structures in Mathews County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Mathews County, Virginia {{MathewsCountyVA-NRHP-stub