It was built by Dabney Cosby (c. 1793-August, 1862), a master builder for Thomas Jefferson, in 1818.

The building features the Tuscan order throughout and a tetrastyle portico.

Also included are the contributing small, brick, one-story clerks office; the brick, two-story, gable-roofed former jail; and Confederate Civil War monument (1901).

[1] It is included in the Cumberland Court House Historic District

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