[7] Historian Nathaniel Ragland Featherston writes in his book Appomattox County History and Genealogy that between the close of the Civil War and the time the original "court house" burned down (1892) there was a group of a dozen or so town's people in the village of Appomattox Court House that socially were like one big happy family.

[8] Historian William Marvel writes in his book A Place Called Appomattox that Peers was the longest standing court clerk.

[11] One of the last artillery shots fired by the Confederate Northern Virginia killed Lieutenant Hiram Clark of the 185th New York Infantry near the Peers house on the morning of April 9, 1865.

[12] The Peers House embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction of mid-nineteenth century rural Virginia.

The building with its resources is considered typical of both a county government seat and of a farming community in Piedmont Virginia in the mid-nineteenth century.

[13] The Peers House has single step external end chimneys and with its narrow wood siding.