CIVICS · HISTORICAL MARKER

1849

Wellsburg, West Virginia
· The First Courthouse
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In Brooke County, Virginia, Samuel Herdman built a courthouse here in 1799 and lived to see it torn down and rebuilt in 1849 as the present Brooke County West Virginia Courthouse.
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