Buckingham County / Fluvanna County

Buckingham County, located in the geographical center of Virginia and the only county in the United States to bear that name, was formed in 1761 from Albemarle County, although it is not known which of the many Buckinghams in English history gave the county its name. Its court square, with its Greek Doric courthouse, Confederate monument, and clerk's office, exemplifies the classic 19th-century rural courthouse village. Fluvanna County, formed from Albemarle County in 1777, takes its name from an 18th-century term for the upper James River, meaning river of Anne, a name originally bestowed in honor of England's Queen Anne. Among its outstanding architectural and historic resources are those in the Bremo Historic District, including Upper Bremo, Lower Bremo, and Recess, and in the Fluvanna County Courthouse Historic District, where at the county seat of Palmyra a temple-form courthouse designed by Gen. John Hartwell Cocke dominates a small cluster of court structures.

Virginia · United States