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The Renaissance Revival Buchanan County Courthouse in the town of Grundy indicates the importance given to law and order when the county was experiencing its early coal-mining rush. Built of rough-faced locally quarried stone, the courthouse is the fourth courthouse to serve Buchanan County since its formation in 1858. Lending distinction to the building as well as the town is the slender corner clock tower. The courthouse was designed by Frank P. Milburn of Washington, D. C., and completed in 1906. Milburn’s firm was responsible for several other courthouses in Southwest Virginia and also supervised the 1917 reconstruction of the Buchanan courthouse interior, after it was gutted by a 1915 fire which consumed much of Grundy. The Buchanan County Courthouse received major additions in 1949-59 and 1984.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
