Stafford has been the county seat since 1715, and the town still clusters around the courthouse, though growth is apparent. Stafford County needed a new courthouse when the old one was demolished for a widening of U.S. 1. Stern, of Fredericksburg, followed the Virginia tradition with a pedimented, hexastyle, Roman Doric temple front.
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