The original county courthouse was located closer to the James River at Warwick Town near Denbigh Plantation, but it is no longer standing.

The county moved its seat to the new location in 1810 and built a one-story, three-room, T-shaped plan Federal-style brick building.

As part of the Peninsula Campaign, on the afternoon of April 5, 1862, IV Corps under BG Erasmus D. Keyes reached and looted the Warwick County Courthouse.

[3] The clerk’s office was burned on December 15, 1864, and the court minute books and loose records from 1787 to 1819 were destroyed.

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