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The Queen Anne’s County Courthouse
boasts a long heritage as the oldest Maryland courthouse in continuous
use. Completed in 1792, the white brick courthouse had a center
section two rooms deep, flanked by matching wings one room deep. The
building was renovated in 1876 and the wings were doubled in depth
and a rear addition was added. Upstairs, today’s circuit
court cases are heard beneath a coffered tin ceiling that is
supported by cast iron columns from the Victorian Era renovations.
During the cold war a bomb shelter was built in the basement. The
courthouse is a fully functional working environment with current
documents sitting beside dusty old volumes recording the indentures
of servants.
The courthouse green is the town’s centerpiece and the green itself
is graced with a sculpture of the county’s namesake – Good Queen
Anne. Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of England attended the
statue’s 1977 dedication. This is the only known sculpture of Queen
Anne outside of England. Also on
the courthouse green is the county’s war memorial wall that lists
the names of each Queen Anne’s County citizen who died fighting for the
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