2008 Christmas Ornament - Berea Church	$15.00
This year's Christmas ornament.   Photo will be updated soon.

2007 Christmas Ornament - Courthouse Bell

$15.00

The 2007 Christmas Ornament features the Spotsylvania Courthouse Bell 1880.  The Spotsylvania courthouse bell was cast by the Meneely Bell Foundry, West Troy, New York in 1880.  This bell was originally located in the belfry of the courthouse prior to the building's repair in 1901.  The bell was rung to announce court sessions and for emergencies.  It could be heard throughout the sparsely populated village...

2006 Christmas Ornament - Confederate Cemetery

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The 2006 Christmas ornament features the Confederate Cemetery.   Located in the Spotsylvania Courthouse Historic District, it is the final resting place for rest some 600 Confederate soldiers killed on the Civil War battlefields of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness and Spotsylvania.  They came from ten Confederate States, to fight for the Confederacy here in Virginia.  One-third of the battles in the Civil War were fought in Virginia, and one-third of these battles were fought in Spotsylvania County.  The Spotsylvania Museum has a roster of Confederate veterans interred here.

2005 Christmas Ornament - Spotsylvania Jail 1855

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The 2005 Christmas ornament features the Spotsylvania Jail, built in 1855 at the Courthouse.  This is the second jail at the Courthouse location.  The first, built in 1781, was transferred brick by brick in 1839 from Block House Road to the current site.   Fourteen years later, the jail was severely damaged by fire.  It was ordered that a larger jail be built of new materials.  When it was built in 1855, it consisted of six cells: three upstairs and three downstairs.  In 1948, the building was condemned and ceased to be used as a jail.  It was renovated and used for office space and government storage.  The original hand-forged iron door was returned to the county in 1978.  It had been the victim of the scrap-iron pile and was being used as a farm implement.

2004 Christmas Ornament - Spotsylvania High School 1939

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The 2004 Christmas ornament features Spotsylvania High School, built in 1939.  The school was the "crown jewel" of a progressive program to upgrade the high school housing and curriculum, as envisioned by John H. Chiles, Superintendent of Public Instruction 1917-1945.   The building housed a consolidation of high school departments from Belmont, Chancellor, Margo, Marye and Robert E. Lee Schools.   Since 1968, it has housed a Junior High and an Intermediate School.   The building was eventually phased out of the school system and became a county property.  On November 19, 1999, it was dedicated as the Marshall Center.  It is located on Courthouse Road, near the court house.

2003 Christmas Ornament - Sanford's Tavern

$15.00

The 2003 Christmas ornament features Sanford's Tavern which stood at the Courthouse intersection.  Built by Samuel Alsop in 1838, the Tavern was owned by Joseph Sanford from 1853 to 1869.  During the Civil War Sanford's Tavern was near the center of the Battle for Spotsylvania Court House and served as headquarters for Confederate General Jubal A. Early and his staff.  General Robert E. Lee was in conference here frequently.  The Tavern was decimated by fire in 1905 and rebuilt in 1906.

2002 Christmas Ornament - Spotsylvania Courthouse

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The 2002 Christmas ornament features the Spotsylvania Courthouse.   The Court was moved to its present site in 1839.  The Courthouse was built by masons who had worked for Thomas Jefferson during the construction of the University of Virginia.  The battering sustained by the Courthouse during the Civil War necessitated major repairs in 1870.  The current structure was erected after the building was declared unsafe.   The original Doric columns were salvaged and put in place.  Spotsylvania County Records dating from the founding of the County in 1720 are complete with the exception of three books damaged during the Civil War.