Old Westmoreland Courthouse
At a public meeting here, on June 22, 1774, resolutions of Richard Henry Lee offering aid to Boston, whose port had been closed by the British government, were adopted. Here, on May 23,1775, the Westmoreland Committee on Safety passed resolutions denouncing the Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore, for seizing the colony’s powder supply at Williamsburg. The marker is in Montross, VA on King’s Highway (Route 3), on the left when traveling west. It is located directly in front of the Westmoreland County Courthouse. Featured on a Virginia postcard about this historic site reads, “Portraits of prominent early Virginians on view upstairs; lower floor houses original records, dating back to 1653, of the county that has been described as the ‘most historic county in the United States’.”
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