Colonial Williamsburg First Colonial Courthouse 2021 Travel

Williamsburg's citizens assembled at their courthouse at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, May 1, 1783, to celebrate at last the end of the war with England - just as they had gathered seven years earlier to hear lawyer Benjamin Waller proclaim from its steps the Declaration of Independence.
The Courthouse served the Williamsburg community for more than 160 years, though business was interrupted briefly by the Civil War. Confederates used it as a hospital after the Battle of Williamsburg, and by the time they carried off their wounded, the doors and windows were gone as well - used perhaps for firewood.