CHAPTER 433

An Act to require the State Library Board to have prepared and erected
on the southwest corner of Crawford and Queen Streets and in the
Court House yard at High and Court Streets in the City of Portsmouth,
historical markers, respectively, commemorating Crawford House and
Norfolk County Court House.

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Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. §1. The State Library Board is hereby directed to have prepared and
erected prior to January one, nineteen hundred sixty-one, in commemora-
tion of Crawford House, an historical marker on the southwest corner of
Crawford and Queen Streets in the City of Portsmouth, bearing substan-
tially the following inscription:

CRAWFORD HOUSE

Erected 1835 by Dr. J. W. Collins. Portmouth’s first five-story building
and for many years a leading hotel. Presidents Van Buren, Tyler, and
Fillmore were entertained here.

§ 2. The State Library Board is further directed to have prepared
and erected prior to such date, in commemoration of Norfolk County Court
House, an historical marker in an appropriate location in Court House
yard, High and Court Streets in the City of Portsmouth, bearing substan-
tially the following inscription:

NORFOLK COUNTY COURT HOUSE
1845

Begun 1845, first occupied 20 July 1846, the architect, William R.
Singleton, a Portsmouth native, also designed the old Norfolk Court House.
This building stands on one of the four corners dedicated for public use
in 1752 by Lieutenant-Colonel William Crawford, founder of Portsmouth.
The site was formerly occupied by the Clerk’s Office when an earlier
Court House, built in 1803, stood on the northeast corner, opposite.