About half a mile northeast stood the old courthouse and clerk’s office of Rappahannock County, 1665–1693. To this courthouse Thomas Goodrich and Benjamin Goodrich, ordered to appear with halters around their necks, came to express their penitence for taking part in Bacon’s Rebellion in l676.

Marker is on Tidewater Trail (U.S. 17) north of Old Courthouse Road, on the right when traveling north.

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