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Mecklenburg County was established on March 1, 1765, and named for Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of George III. The first court met on March 11, 1765, at the home of Richard Swepson in the new county seat, Mecklenburg Courthouse. In 1812, the town was chartered as Boyd Town when Alexander Boyd, Jr. conveyed fifty acres for that purpose. Its streets were laid off and named for heroes of the wars with England. The Greek Revival courthouse was built between 1838 and 1842 by James T. Whitice and William A. Howard, builders of Randolph Macon College just west of Boydton. It is the only antebellum courthouse in Virginia with a hexastyle, six-column portico employing the Roman Ionic order, and the Virginia courthouse closest in style to Jefferson’s capitol building in Richmond.
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