The courtyard of Middlesex County's colonial courthouse stood behind the brick courthouse building on Virginia Street and extended to Prince George Street. In 1748, Urbanna became the county seat of Middlesex County and remained so for 104 years, until the courthouse was moved in 1852 to its present location in Saluda. The courthouse building still stands as the Middlesex County Woman's Club building. The grounds included the courthouse, a brick clerk's office, jail, pillory, whipping post, and stocks, and national and local issues of the time were heard there. In sympathy with the 1773 Boston Tea Party, the Middlesex Resolutions were drafted and read to the people at the courthouse on July 15, 1774, declaring that the people of Middlesex County and Urbanna would not tolerate taxation without representation. Together with similar resolutions in other colonies, they helped lead to citizen support for the American Revolution. These resolutions came after the 1772 imprisonment of Baptist minister John Waller, who was jailed in the town jail by an Anglican sheriff for preaching without an Anglican-approved license. Waller sparked the town's Great Religious Awakening by preaching each day to people gathered outside the jail window. After the American victory at Yorktown, the Baptist faith spread rapidly in Urbanna and Middlesex County.