The reconstructed county courthouse now serves as the Visitor Center/Museum for the National Park. At the Visitor Center on the first floor of the courthouse Park Rangers orient visitors to the site informing them of interpretive programs, exhibits, and various services available. Upstairs visitors will find the museum and theatre, offering a chance to delve more deeply into the events surrounding the end of the Civil War and the long term effects upon the country.
Courthouse
RECONSTRUCTED 1963 - 1964
Description: 50'x40', w/ hipped flat-seam roof w/wood trusses. 2-story east and west entry porches: brick paved 1st floor beneath 2nd-floor hipped-roof porch w/ brick & cast stone steps. Both S chimneys removed. 1986-copper damp-proof course installed. Original Court House built in 1846, 1 year after Appomattox County was established, and burned in 1892. County seat then moved two miles west near the rail station. Existing building and square were reconstructed in 1963-64.
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