K 168 APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE NEW AND OLD THIS BUILDING, ERECTED IN 1892 WHEN THE COUNTY SEAT WAS MOVED TO THIS LOCATION, SHOULD NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR THE ORIGINAL. BUILT IN 1848 AND DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1892. THREE MILES NORTHEAST IS OLD APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE AND THE McLEAN HOUSE WHERE LEE SURRENDERED TO GRANT ON APRIL 9, 1865. THUS ENDING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. THE VILLAGE OF OLD APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE IS NOW PRESERVED AS A NATION SHRINE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Hi, I am Kim Hendrix and would like to welcome to the Appomattox County, Virginia Cemeteries Project. If you would like to contribute headstone photos, obituaries or would like to transcribe and take pictures of the headstones in any cemetery in Appomattox County, please email me.
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